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A  BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  AFRICA 

A  Companion  to  Anglican  Church  Missions 

in  Africa 


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INTRODUCTION 


The  reader  should  bear  in  mind  that  few  of  those 
who  are  in  Mission  Study  classes  will  be  able  to  find 
time  to  read  all  these  books.  To  do  so  would  be  to 
devote  a  disproportionate  amount  of  energy  to  the 
study  of  one  country,  when  the  needs  of  every  portion 
of  the  mission  field  are  pressing  upon  us.  But  many 
members  of  classes  in  their  private  reading  may  find 
that  some  one  feature  of  the  subject  especially  appeals 
to  them,  and  they  may  be  willing  and  anxious  to  pur¬ 
sue  their  study  a  little  further  by  themselves.  One 
may  be  interested  in  the  geography,  another  in  the 
natural  resources,  another  in  the  political  movements, 
another  in  the  native  religions  and  still  another  in  the 
native  languages  of  Africa.  The  following  list  is  very 
far  from  being  exhaustive.  The  narratives  of  such 
travellers  as  Mungo  Park,  Burkhardt,  Burton,  Speke, 
Livingstone  and  Baker  are  excluded,  because  we  know 
more  or  can  know  more  of  Africa  than  their  books  can 
tell  us,  and  perhaps  some  of  our  readers  may  think 
that  Stanley’s  books,  too,  should  have  been  omitted. 
There  is  much  that  is  valuable  and  a  little  that  is 
worthless  in  the  list,  and  an  honest  endeavor  has  been 
made  to  distinguish  between  the  two. 

For  a  class  of  beginners,  Daybreak  on  The  Dark 
Continent  or  Christus  Liberator  is  useful  for  informa¬ 
tion.  These  provide  the  skeleton  to  be  built  upon. 
It  may  be  that  the  part  of  Africa  where  the  American 


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INTRODUCTION 


Church  has  its  Missions  has  been  selected  as  the  sub¬ 
ject  for  study,  or  some  other  part  of  the  Continent, 
the  scene  of  the  missions  of  the  Church  of  England. 
To  make  the  work  of  finding  just  what  such  stu¬ 
dents  require  as  simple  as  possible,  the  books  have 
been  grouped  under  the  heads  of  the  Special  Missions 
of  the  Anglican  Church,  although  volumes  about  the 
work  of  other  missionary  societies  and  accounts  of 
the  country  are  included  with  the  publications  of  the 
Church — care  being  taken  to  specify  the  author  and 
the  special  scope  of  his  work.  For  classes  of  children 
the  teacher  must  make  her  own  selections. 

For  those  who  lack  the  time  to  peruse  extended 
works  and  treatises,  yet  desire  to  familiarize  themselves 
to  some  extent  with  the  work  of  the  Church  in  various 
parts  of  Africa,  there  are  pamphlets  which  give  the 
principal  facts  in  the  lives  of  Missionary  Bishops,  and 
the  chief  events  in  the  work  of  Mission  stations.  Some 
of  the  Bishops  whose  lives  have  been  abridged  are 
Bishop  Crowther,  Bishop  Hannington,  Bishop  Mac¬ 
kenzie,  Bishop  Steere,  Bishop  Smythies  and  Bishop 
Gray.  There  are  short  accounts  of  Mashonaland, 
Hausa  Land,  The  Yoruba  Mission,  The  Eastern  Equato¬ 
rial  Africa  Mission  and  The  West  African  Missions,  and 
the  Reminiscences  of  an  Old  Zulu  Woman  tells  in  a 
pathetic  manner  the  story  of  work  in  Zulu  Land. 
xMost  of  these  are  published  at  prices  ranging  from  a 
penny  to  a  shilling,  by  the  Church  Missionary  Society 
or  by  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in 
Foreign  Parts. 

Some  books  are  not  to  be  recommended.  They  are 
so  indicated  in  the  reviews,  and  mention  is  only  made 
of  them  to  show  that  they  have  been  read  and  ex- 


INTRODUCTION 


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arnined,  not  overlooked.  They  are  not  recommended 
for  several  reasons. 

1.  They  may  have  been  of  value  in  their  day,  but 
their  day  has  passed. 

2.  They  deal  with  trivial  details. 

3.  They  are  written  from  a  distinctly  irreligious 
standpoint. 

Any  one  of  these  three  objections  renders  them 
utterly  valueless  to  a  mission  study  class.  In  some 
cases  their  literary  worth  is  considerable,  but  our  classes 
are  studying  Missions  and  not  literature.  It  is  hoped 
that  this  Bibliography  may  be  of  some  help  to  those 
who  have  little  opportunity  to  examine  books  before 
purchasing  them. 


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A  BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  AFRICA 

A 

Actual  Africa,  by  Frank  Vincent.  See  General. 

African  Wastes  Reclaimed,  by  Robert  Young.  See  South 
A  frica. 

Aldridge,  T.  J.,  The  Sherbro  and  Its  Hinterland.  See  TFes/! 
Africa. 

Anderson-Morshead,  History  of  the  Universities’  Mission  to 
Central  Africa.  See  East  Central  Africa. 

Arnold,  T.  W.,  Preaching  of  Islam.  See  General. 

Ash,  R.  P.,  Chronicles  of  Uganda,  Two  Kings  of  Uganda.  See 
Uganda. 

A^tterbury,  Anson  P.,  Islam  in  Africa.  See  General. 


B 

Bechuana  in  South  Africa,  The.  See  South  Africa. 

Bell,  Robert,  A  Miracle  of  African  Missions.  See  West  Africa. 
Black  Man’s  Garden,  Round  the,  by  Zelie  Colville.  See  Gen¬ 
eral. 

Blackie,  Personal  Life  of  Livingstone.  See  Central  A  frica. 
Bindloss,  Harold,  In  the  Niger  Country.  See  Western  Africa. 


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c 

Calabar  and  its  Mission.  Rev.  Hugh  Goldie.  See  West  Africa. 

Caton,  Dorothy",  Every  Day  Life  among  the  Head  Hunters. 

See  West  Africa. 

CENTRAL  AFRICA 

Central  Africa,  On  the  Threshold  of,  by  Francois  Coillard. 
Cloth,  12mo.,  pp.  663.  London:  Hodder  &  Stoughton, 
1903.  Price  7s.  6d. 

The  scene  of  the  work  of  Monsieur  Coillard  and  his  wife 
is  the  country  of  Lewanika,  the  African  king  who  at¬ 
tracted  so  much  attention  in  England  at  the  time  of  the 
coronation  of  King  Edwrard  VII,  and  we  know  no  better 
book  on  Barotseland,  a  vast  territory  little  known  as  yet, 
stretching  northwest  of  the  Victoria  Falls,  and  in  touch 
with  the  Congo  Free  State  on  the  north  and  the  Germans 
on  the  west.  Troubled  by  both  these  kingdoms  Lewanika 
asked  for  the  protection  of  England,  and  now  reigns  in 
peace  in  his  land.  Monsieur  and  Madame  Coillard  be¬ 
longed  to  the  French  Protestant  Mission,  which  has  done 
so  much  work  in  Basutoland,  and  which  was  among  the 
very  first  to  plant  the  cross  in  Barotseland.  Madame 
Coillard  died  at  her  post  and  is  buried  in  that  country. 
Her  husband  is  continuing  his  work  among  Lewanika’s 
people.  His  book,  which  is  a  second  edition,  will  interest 
two  classes  of  readers — those  who  are  interested  in  South 
Africa  as  a  countrv,  and  those  who  are  interested  in  it  as 
a  Mission  Field.  There  is  a  first  rate  map  in  the  volume, 
and  several  excellent  photographs  of  natives  to  illustrate 
race  types. 

Central  Africa,  Pioneering  in,  by  Samuel  P.  Verner. 
Cloth,  8vo.,  pp.  486.  Richmond:  Presbyterian  Committee 
of  Publication,  1903.  Price  $2.00. 

One  would  make  no  mistake  in  choosing  this  book  for  a 
Mission  Study  Library.  The  author,  a  Southerner,  was 
led  to  devote  himself  to  the  mission  field  by  reading  the 
life  of  Livingstone, and  that  great  explorer’s  dying  words, 
“May  the  blessing  of  Almighty  God  come  down  on  all — 
American,  English  or  Turk,  who  will  come  to  heal  this 


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open  sore  of  the  world”,  made  a  great  impression  upon 
him.  Up  the  Congo  by  steamer  to  Livingstone  Falls,  by 
bearer  and  on  foot  to  Stanley  Pool,  by  steamer  again  up 
the  Congo  to  its  Junction  with  the  Kasai,  up  the  Kasai 
to  the  mouth  of  the  Luebo,  then  on  foot  to  the  mission 
station — a  distance  of  ten  thousand  miles.  Then  the 
usual  life  of  a  missionary — manual  labor  or  oversight  of 
others,  learning,  teaching,  preaching,  then  illness,  the  re¬ 
turn  and  a  book,  the  book  being  a  most  simple,  unaffected 
account  of  native  conditions  and  his  own  experiences, 
permeated  with  a  spirit  of  great  hopefulness  regarding 
the  future  of  Central  Africa. 

Central  Africa,  Twenty  Years  in,  by  the  Rev.  H.  Rowley. 
Cloth,  16  mo.  London:  W.  W.  Gardner,  1881.  Price  3s. 
6d. 

Mr.  Rowley  was  one  of  the  Church  Missionary  Society 
workers  in  its  early  days,  and  his  story,  largely  in  diary 
form,  gives  a  graphic  account  of  some  of  the  many  trials 
and  hardships  which  the  devoted  missionary  in  Africa 
still  is  obliged  to  encounter.  The  narrative  is  of  interest 
in  its  depiction  of  bygone  conditions,  and  should  cause 
all  who  are  interested  in  Missions  to  “thank  God  and 
take  courage”  for  the  undoubted  advance.  It  describes 
conditions  which  no  longer  exist,  however,  and  on  this 
account  has  little  value  from  the  point  of  view  of  the 
present  day. 

Congo  Land,  Civilization  in,  by  H.  R.  Fox-Bourne.  Cloth, 
8vo.,  pp.  303.  London:  P.  S.  King  &  Co.,  1903.  Price 
10s.,  6d. 

Such  value  as  this  book  has  is  largely  political.  It  is  an 
expose  of  the  methods  of  some  of  the  foreign  powers  in 
the  development  of  the  resources  of  the  Congo  Free  State. 
A  book  of  this  description  is  worthless  as  soon  as  the  condi¬ 
tions  depicted  are  at  an  end,  and  the  newspapers  since  its 
publication  have  contained  so  many  indictments  of  the 
Belgians,  and  so  much  in  regard  to  the  Belgian  atrocities 
in  the  Congo  Free  State,  that  its  comparatively  temperate 
statements  are  likely  to  be  quite  overlooked. 


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Dark  Continent,  Through  the,  by  Henry  M.  Stanley.  Half 
leather, 8vo.,  2  vols.,pp.  522  and  480.  New  York:  Harper  & 
Bros.,  1878.  Price  $7.50. 

Stanley’s  first  African  trip  is  recorded  in  “How  I  hound 
Livingstone.”  When  the  news  reached  London,  in  1874, 
of  Livingstone’s  death,  Mr.  Stanley  was  sent  to  finish 
his  work  and  to  discover  if  possible  the  sources  of  the 
Nile.  He  landed  at  Zanzibar  and  after  encountering 
and  surmounting  many  difficulties,  discovered  the  source 
of  the  Nile  in  Victoria  Nyanza.  This  sounds  like  very 
ancient  history  but  there  are  chapters  concerning  the  early 
days  of  Uganda  which  are  worth  reading  even  now,  when 
the  continent  of  Africa  has  been  thrown  open  from  east, 
to  west,  and  when  generations  of  school  boys  know  more 
about  its  physical  configuration  than  did  Stanley  himself. 
The  continent  was  traversed  and  the  explorer  returned 
home  by  way  of  the  Livingstone  River  and  the  Atlantic 
Ocean . 

Darkest  Africa,  In,  by  Henry  M.  Stanley.  Half  leather, 
8vo.,  2  vols. ,  pp.  547  and  480.  New  York :  Charles  Scribner’s 
Sons,  1890.  Price  $7.50. 

The  story  of  how  Stanley  found  Emin  Pasha  is  second  in 
interest  only  to  the  story  of  how  he  found  Livingstone, 
yet  they  give  one  a  better  idea  of  the  dangers  to  be  en¬ 
countered  by  African  explorers  than  they  do  of  the  op¬ 
portunities  of  the  Mission  field.  There  is  kindly  allusion 
to  Mackay  of  Uganda,  but  nothing  new  concerning  him. 
When  the  book  appeared  there  was  much  interest  mani¬ 
fested  in  the  Dark  Forest,  and  the  strange  little  race  of 
Pygmies,  but  recent  travellers  have  told  us  far  more,  and 
Stanley’s  books  are  beginning  to  have  historic  value,  like 
Burton’s,  Speke’s,  or  Baker’s. 

Dark  Continent,  Daybreak  in  the,  by  Wilson  S.  Naylor. 
Cloth,  16mo.,  pp.  304.  New  York:  The  Young  People’s 
Missionary  Movement,  1905.  Price  60c. 

One  of  the  valuable  recent  manuals  which  is  continually 
needed  for  reference.  The  author,  working  under  Bishop 
Hartzell  of  the  Methodist  Mission,  visited  the  main  mis¬ 
sionary  stations  from  the  east  to  the  west  coasts  of 


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Africa,  and  writes  with  impartiality  and  sincerity  of  the 
good  work  done  in  so  widely  scattered  spots.  The  book 
is  prepared  for  mission  study  bands,  and  is  admirably 
fitted  to  give  a  comprehensive  view. 

Jungle  Folk  of  Africa,  The,  by  Robert  H.  Milligan.  Cloth, 
12mo.,  pp.  380.  New  York:  Fleming  FI.  Revell  Co.,  1908. 
There  is  a  breeziness  and  dash  about  this  book  which  is 
attractive  in  its  way,  and  there  is  much  information  re¬ 
garding  the  people  of  whom  he  writes.  But,  though  the 
author  is,  presumably  a  missionary,  he  has  so  little  to  say 
of  his  work  that  he  might  almost  as  well  have  been  a 
traveller  or  trader,  with  good  moral  instincts.  There  is  a 
coarseness  of  fibre  manifested  in  the  way  he  speaks  of 
these  people,  and  so  marked  a  deficiency  in  ideals  that  the 
book  is  painful  to  one  who  remembers  what  Mackay,  and 
Iiannington,  and  the  long  roll  of  martyred  missionaries 
wrote  concerning  the  greatness  of  their  opportunity  and 
the  preciousness  of  these  heathen  souls  in  the  sight  of  God. 

Livingstonia,  Daybreak  in,  by  James  W.  Jack,  M.  A.  Cloth, 
12mo.,pp.  356.  New  York:  Fleming  FI.  Revell  Co.,  1900. 
Price  SI. 50. 

Livingstone  reached  South  Africa  on  his  first  trip  in  1840 
and  remained  until  1856.  When  he  returned  home  he 
published  his  first  book,  Missionary  Travels,  which  gave 
the  civilized  world  a  new  conception  of  the  Dark  Conti¬ 
nent.  He  left  for  Africa  again  in  1858  and  returned  in 
1864,  when  he  published  “The  Zambesi  and  Its  Tribu¬ 
taries.”  In  1866  he  made  his  third  and  last  and  greatest 
expedition,  with  the  object  of  discovering  into  what  bodies 
of  water  the  northern  streams  of  Central  Africa  flowed. 
It  was  reported  that  he  was  dead  and  more  than  three 
years  passed  without  any  news  of  him.  The  New  York 
Herald  sent  Stanley  in  search,  and  Stanley  found  him  in 
the  heart  of  Africa  in  1871.  He  remained  there  in  spite 
of  Stanley’s  pleadings  and  died  in  a  native  hut  in  1873. 
On  account  of  his  self-sacrificing  death,  the  whole  matter 
of  a  mission  in  Central  Africa  became  alive  again,  and  a 
new  mission  was  started  at  Lake  Nyassa,  called  Living¬ 
stonia  in  memory  of  the  great  traveller,  under  the  direction 


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of  the  Free  Kirk  of  Scotland.  Mr.  Jack  has  written  a 
most  interesting  and  absorbing  account  of  the  founding, 
progress  and  present  status  of  this  wonderful  missionary 
enterprise. 

Livingstone,  David,  by  Palgrave.  Office  of  the  U.  M.  C.  A., 
9  Darmonth  St.,  Westminster,  S.  W.  9d. 

This,  as  its  price  shows,  is  simply  a  short  sketch  of  the 
life  of  the  great  missionary  and  explorer,  and  deals  chiefly 
in  his  relations  to  the  work  of  the  founding  of  the  Uni¬ 
versities’  Mission  to  Central  Africa.  It  gives  all  the  stu¬ 
dent  who  is  taking  up  the  work  of  the  Anglican  Church  in 
Central  Africa  as  part  of  a  general  course  of  a  few  lessons 
on  the  entire  continent  needs  to  read  about  Livingstone. 
If,  however,  he  wishes  to  enter  more  fully  into  the  per¬ 
sonal  life  and  work  of  the  explorer  he  must  turn  to  the 
larger  biographies. 

Livingstone,  David,  by  Thomas  Hughes.  Cloth,  16mo. 
English  Men  of  Letters  Series,  pp.  208.  Price  75  cents. 
London:  Macmillan  &  Co.,  1889. 

The  Personal  Life  of  David  Livingstone,  by  Blaikie,  should 
be  read  as  an  introduction  to  this,  for  there  is  only  a  short 
chapter  devoted  to  Livingstone’s  life  before  he  went  to 
Africa.  After  that,  the  narrative  is  very  complete,  and 
is  written  with  great  sympathy  and  understanding.  The 
small  size  of  the  book,  in  these  days  of  multiplication  of 
large  and  elaborate  volumes,  is  a  not  inconsiderable  point 
in  its  favor.  There  is  much  use  made  of  the  letters  and 
Journals  of  Livingstone,  wdiich  adds  greatly  to  the  fresh¬ 
ness  and  directness  of  the  book. 

Livingstone,  The  Personal  Life  of  David,  by  W.  Garden 
Blaikie,  D.  D.  Cloth,  12mo.,  pp.  492.  New  York:  Fleming 
H.  Revell  Co.,  1880. 

We  all  are  acquainted  with  the  marvelous  work  which 
Livingstone  accomplished  in  opening  to  civilization  the 
interior  of  The  Dark  Continent.  He  was  the  source  of 
inspiration  to  many  of  those  who  have  succeeded  him, 
Stanley  among  the  first;  but  to  understand  what  this 
power  to  win,  to  influence,  to  compel,  consisted  in,  it  is 
necessary  to  know  what  his  heredity  and  environment 


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were.  The  son  of  a  tailor,  apprenticed  to  the  spinning 
trade,  descended  from  a  long  line  of  Scottish  Covenanters, 
he  had  the  same  enduring,  granitic  qualities  as  the  finest 
flower  of  our  Puritanism.  Working  all  summer  and  sav¬ 
ing  his  money  for  his  winter  expenses,  he  studied  medicine 
and  science,  as  well  as  theology,  to  fit  himself  for  his  life 
work.  One  rises  from  a  perusal  of  these  fascinating  pages 
understanding  more  fully  the  personality  of  the  great 
man  by  whom  so  mighty  things  were  wrought. 

Masai,  The.  Their  Language  and  Folk-Lore,  bv  A.  C. 
Hollis.  With  an  introduction  by  Sir  Charles  Eliot.  Cloth, 
Svo.,  pp.  356.  Oxford:  The  Clarendon  Press,  1905.  Price 
14s. 

The  Masai  occupy  a  considerable  part  of  the  large  plains 
which  extend  from  about  one  degree  north  of  the  Equator 
to  six  degrees  south  of  it,  situated  in  both  British  and 
German  East  Africa.  Their  language  is  one  of  peculiar 
interest  to  scholars,  and  their  stories,  proverbs,  riddles, 
songs  and  accounts  of  their  own  customs  and  beliefs  are 
all  very  curious,  and  are  given  in  the  words  of  the  relators 
themselves.  The  author’s  object  in  writing  this  book  is  to 
preserve  some  record  of  the  language  before  it  is  mixed 
writh  that  of  other  tribes.  It  is  considered  advisable  that 
English  civil  servants  resident  in  Africa  should  have  a  fair 
working  knowledge  of  some  one  of  the  leading  African 
languages,  and  this  book,  prepared  by  a  writer  of  known 
linguistic  ability,  puts  before  all  interested  a  knowledge 
of  both  the  customs  and  language  of  the  Masai. 

Ngoni,  Among  the  Wild,  by  W.  A.  Elmslie.  Cloth,  16mo., 
pp.  316.  Edinburgh  and  London:  Oliphant,  Anderson  & 
Ferrier,  1899. 

It  would  be  hard  to  select  a  better  volume  for  a  Mission 
Study  Library  than  this  series  of  chapters  in  the  history 
of  the  Livingstonia  Mission  in  British  Central  Africa. 
The  author,  a  medical  missionary,  went  to  the  shores  of 
Lake  Nyassa  and  dwelt  with  the  savages  of  the  Ngoni 
tribe,  with  only  two  companions,  one  a  converted  Kafir, 
who  acted  as  his  interpreter,  the  other  a  Scotch  agricul¬ 
turist,  who  was  only  tolerated  by  the  tribe  because  of  his 


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usefulness.  Schools  were  forbidden,  and  even  preach¬ 
ing  was  discouraged,  but  by  his  care  for  the  sick  and  dy¬ 
ing,  Dr.  Elmslie  won,  first  the  toleration,  then  the  respect 
and  at  last  the  friendship  of  the  tribe.  Missionaries  have 
come  and  gone,  death  has  been  busy  among  them,  but 
surely  nowhere  in  all  missionary  annals  is  there  a  more 
modest,  brave  Christian. 

South  Central  Africa,  Reality  versus  Romance  in, 
From  Benguela  on  the  West  to  the  Mouth  of  the 
Zambesi,  by  J.  Johnston.  Half  calf,  8v.,  pp.  353.  New 
York:  Fleming  H.  Revell  Co.,  1893.  Price  $4.00. 

The  author  of  this  book  tells  a  story  somewhat  at  variance 
with  those  of  other  travellers.  He  was  successful  in  tak¬ 
ing  photographs,  escaping  quarrels  and  illnesses  and  in 
getting  along  with  the  natives.  His  view  of  missionaries 
is  that  they  are  not  needed  by  the  natives,  but  necessary 
for  the  whites,  and  that  without  medical  missionaries  the 
country  would  be  impossible  for  civilized  races.  A  rather 
oblique  testimony  to  their  importance  in  anew  community 
See  also  titles  under  East  Central,  East  and  West  Africa 
and  Uganda. 

Yankee  in  Pygmy  Land,  A,  by  William  Edgar  Geil.  Cloth, 
Svo.,pp.  409.  London:  H odder  &  Stoughton,  1905.  Price 
$1.50. 

The  word  Yankee  is  usually  a  term  of  reproach,  and  we 
are  forced  to  admit  that  if  all  Yankees  were  like  the 
author  of  this  book  the  reproach  would  be  well  founded. 
The  book  has  interest  and  a  certain  degree  of  merit,  but 
Mr.  Geil  did  much  less  than  Stanley,  and  tells  of  it  with 
much  more  blowing  of  trumpets  and  booming  of  great 
guns.  There  are  many  interesting  photographs,  the 
most  numerous  and  in  Mr.  Geil’s  opinion  the  most  inter¬ 
esting  being  pictures  of  Mr.  Geil,  and  of  his  portmanteau 
marked  in  large  letters,  GEIL.  There  is  a  frontis¬ 
piece  of  Mr.  Geil,  many  pictures  of  Mr.  Geil  in  places  of 
great  danger,  and  toward  the  end  a  picture  of  Mr.  Geil, 
“the  greatest  living  traveller.”  We  feel  sorry  for  Mr. 
Geil’s  secretary  who  accompanied  him  on  his  trip,  and 
whose  spirit  must  have  waxed  faint  and  sore. 


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Christus  Liberator.  Ellen  C.  Parsons.  See  General. 

Chronicles  of  Uganda.  R.  P.  Ashe.  See  Uganda. 

Church  Missionary  Society,  History"  of  the,  by  Eugene 
Stock.  3vols.  pp.  2075,  with  maps  and  many  portraits.  18s. 
net.  See  General. 

Church  Missionary  Society  for  Africa  and  the  East.  An¬ 
nual  Report.  2s. 

Church  Missionary  Society.  Story  of  the  Year.  Illustrated. 

Is. 

Church  Missionary  Gleaner.  Monthly  illustrated.  Postpaid 
Is.  6d.  per  annum. 

Church  Missionary  Review.  Postpaid  6s.  per  annum. 

Church  Missionary"  Society".  Mercy  and  Truth.  Monthly 
record  of  Medical  Missions.  Is.  6d.  per  annum. 

Church  Missionary  Society.  Round  World,  The.  Monthly 
record  for  children.  Postpaid  Is.  per  annum. 

The  large  history  is  more  of  a  reference  work  to  use  like  an 
encyclopa)dia  than  for  general  reading.  It  is  invaluable 
to  the  student  who  wishes  a  review  of  the  story,  told  in 
clear,  concise,  and  readable  form,  of  the  Church  of  Eng¬ 
land’s  Missions  in  Egypt,  Sierra  Leone,  West  Central  Africa, 
East  Africa  and  Uganda.  Whoso  wishes,  however,  to 
keep  up  with  the  wonderful  progress  made  by  these 
missions  and  to  present  to  others  a  picture  of  the  work 
must  be  provided  with  either  the  full  official  report,  or 
its  popular  summary  in  the  “Story  of  the  Year”,  and  one 
or  more  of  the  magazines — for  general  purposes,  pref¬ 
erably,  “The  Gleaner”;  for  scholarly  reviews  and  critical 
outlooks,  “The  Review.” 

Coillard,  Francois,  On  the  Threshold  of  Central  Africa.  See 
Central  Africa. 

Coming  Continent,  Actual  Africa  or  the,  by  F.  Vincent.  See 
General. 

Congo  Land,  Civilization  in.  H.  R.  Fox-Bourne.  See  Central 
Africa. 


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D 

Dark  Continent,  Through  the.  Henry  Stanley.  See  Central 
Africa. 

Darkest  Africa,  In.  Henry  Stanley.  See  Central  Africa. 

Daybreak  in  the  Dark  Continent.  Wilson  L.  Naylor.  See 
General. 

Daybreak  in  Livingstonia.  James  W.  Jack.  See  Central 
Africa. 

Dawson,  E.  C.,  Life  of  Bishop  Hannington.  See  Central  Africa. 

Dawson,  E.  C.,  Last  Journals  of  Bishop  Hannington.  See  Cen¬ 
tral  Africa. 

DuBois,  Felix,  Timbuctoo,  the  Mysterious.  See  Western  Africa. 

Dunning,  H.  W. ,  To-day  on  the  Nile.  See  Egypt  and  the  Soudan. 

DuPlessis,  J.,  A  Thousand  Miles  in  Central  Africa.  See  Central 
Africa. 


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E 

EAST  AND  EAST  CENTRAL  AFRICA 

Central  Africa.  Id  monthly. 

African  Tidings,  Ulus  £d.  monthly. 

Office  of  the  Universities’  Mission,  9  Dartmouth  St  , 
Westminister,  S.  W.  England. 

These  are  the  official  magazines  of  the  U.  M.  C.  A.  for 
up-to-date  news  from  this  field. 

East  Africa,  Letters  from,  1895-1897,  by  Gertrude  Ward. 
Cloth,  16  mo.,pp.  240.  London:  Office  of  the  Universities’ 
Missions  to  Central  Africa,  1901. 

A  more  delightful  little  volume  of  letters  from  a  young 
lady  to  her  friends  at  home  has  not  often  appeared  in 
print.  Miss  Ward  is  the  author  of  The  Life  of  Bishop 
Steere,  and  at  the  time  when  these  letters  were  written 
she  was  a  trained  nurse,  stationed  at  Magila  in  German 
East  Africa;  one  of  the  places  in  charge  of  the  Univer¬ 
sities’  Missions.  She  writes  most  entertainingly  of  her 
hospital  work;  of  the  children  in  the  schools;  of  the  ex¬ 
citement  caused  by  the  arrival  of  the  new  organ,  and  in  a 
very  serious  and  earnest  way,  of  the  definitely  religious 
Avork  carried  on.  All  her  readers  will  regret  that  illness 
has  caused  her  to  return  to  England,  for  it  is  given  to  few 
writers  to  present  the  missionary  cause  with  more  faith 
and  fervor. 

East  Africa  in  Picture  (1900),  Office  of  Universities’  Mis¬ 
sion,  9  Dartmouth  St.,  Wesminster  S.  W.  5s. 

As  its  title  shows,  this  is  a  picture-book  for  grown 
people  and  children  alike,  but,  although  the  descriptions 
are  very  concise,  it  is  a  very  valuable  and  inspiring  ad¬ 
dition  to  any  study  material  on  the  Universities’  Mission 
and  its  history,  containing,  as  it  does,  maps,  and  fine 
views  of  Zanzibar  Cathedral,  the  Mission  quarters,  schools, 
churches,  etc.,  on  the  Island  of  Zanzibar  and  on  the  main¬ 
land  including  the  stations  on  Lake  Nyassa.  It  is  im¬ 
possible  with  such  views  of  the  missionary  “plant”  before 
us  not  to  be  impressed  with  what  has  been  accomplished 
in  the  heart  of  Africa,  but  to  be  adequately  informed  of 


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1  he  growth  of  the  last  few  years  and  of  the  present  aspect 
of  the  field  it  is  necessary  to  send  to  the  Society’s  Head¬ 
quarters  in  Westminster  for  its  current  periodicals  and 
latest  Report. 

Mackenzie,  Memoir  of  Bishop,  by  Harvey  Goodwin,  D.  D., 
Dean  of  Ely.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  439.  London:  Bell  & 
Daldy,  1864. 

Mackenzie,  Bishop,  Mission  Heroes.  Pamphlet  24  pp. 
London:  S.  P.  C.  K.  Northumberland  Ave. ,  W.  C.  2d. 

Now  that  we  may  read,  in  every  number  of  the  great 
English  missionary  magazines,  of  the  great  work  of  the 
Universities’  Mission,  it  seems  strange  and  a  little  pitiful 
to  read  the  life  of  the  very  first  Bishop  of  the  Universi¬ 
ties’  Mission — a  failure  as  this  world  counts  failure,  but 
really  the  first  stone  sunk  and  submerged  in  shifting 
sand,  utterly  buried  from  sight,  and  yet  the  very  stone 
on  which  the  visible  structure  depends  for  support. 
After  some  years  of  parish  work  in  England,  and  as 
Archdeacon  of  Natal,  Charles  Frederick  Mackenzie  was 
consecrated  the  first  Bishop  of  the  Mission  “to  the  tribes 
dwelling  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  Lake  Nyassa  and  the 
River  Shire.”  He  depended  very  largely  upon  the  ad¬ 
vice  of  Dr.  Livingstone,  and  the  result  was  that  his  action 
brought  upon  him  the  severest  criticism,  not  only  in  other 
parts  of  Africa,  but  in  the  Church  at  home.  He  did  not 
live  long  enough  to  realize  this.  It  was  upon  Bishop 
Tozer  that  the  brunt  of  the  mistakes  of  Bishop  Mackenzie 
fell,  and  it  was  really  not  until  Bishop  Steere’s  day  that 
the  Mission  work  ceased  to  feel  the  results  of  those  early 
mistakes.  Mistakes  alone  they  were.  Bishop  Mac¬ 
kenzie’s  character  was  too  pure  and  lofty  for  any  aspersion 
to  be  cast  upon  it.  He  was  stricken  with  fever  and  died 
while  on  a  trip  to  meet  his  sister,  who  was  coming  to  help 
him,  and  his  Episcopate  lasted  only  two  years.  The 
small  pamphlet  does  not  by  any  means  fill  the  place  of 
the  memoir,  but,  where  time  is  short  or  the  larger  life 
cannot  be  bought,  the  smaller  sketch  will  be  valuable  to 
the  Mission  Class  student. 


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Maples,  Bishop  of  Likoma,  Lake  Nyassa,  The  Life  of 
Chatjncey,  by  his  Sister.  Cloth,  Crown  <Svo.,  pp.  398. 
London:  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  1898. 

It  is  a  noble  army  of  martyrs,  who  as  Bishops,  priests, 
deacons,  teachers  and  lay  helpers  in  various  capacities, 
have  laid  down  their  lives  as  African  missionaries.  And 
in  the  long  array  of  biographies  the  Bishops  of  the  tribes 
around  Lake  Nyassa  have  almost  without  exception 
the  right  to  the  name.  Either  in  will  or  in  deed — in  most 
cases  both  in  will  and  deed,  they  have  lain  down  their 
lives  for  the  brethren.  Mackenzie,Tozer,Steere,Smythies, 
Maples  are  among  those  who  are  gone.  Let  us  hope  that 
others  who  follow  them  may  enter  into  their  labors,  but 
not  into  their  distresses. 

For  nineteen  years  Chauncey  Maples  was  a  pioneer  mis¬ 
sionary  in  East  Central  Africa,  being  Archdeacon  of 
Likoma  the  last  ten  years.  Bishop  Smythies’  successor, 
Bishop  Hornby,  arrived  in  Africa  with  shattered  health, 
and  after  six  months  service  was  invalided  home.  Arch¬ 
deacon  Maples  was  chosen  to  succeed  him.  He  returned 
to  England  and  was  consecrated  at  St.  Paul’s  Cathedral 
in  1895  and  twelve  days  after  set  sail  for  Africa.  He 
was  drowned  in  Lake  Nyassa  on  his  way  to  his  island 
Diocese. 

His  simple  life  story,  his  beautiful  letters,  his  sufferings, 
privations,  hardships,  all  help  to  a  deeper  realization  of 
the  meaning  of  the  call,  “Go  ye  into  all  the  world  and 
preach  the  gospel  to  every  creature.”  He  was  not  only 
called,  nor  only  chosen,  but  he  went,  and  he,  too,  laid 
down  his  life  for  the  brethren. 

Maples,  Journals  and  Papers  of  Bishop.  Edited  by  Ellen 
Maples.  Cloth,  crown  8vo.,  pp.  275.  London:  Longmans, 
Green  &  Co.,  1899. 

The  life  of  Bishop  Maples  was  so  deeply  interesting  that  a 
great  desire  was  felt  by  all  readers  to  know  as  much  as 
possible  about  so  charming  a  personality  and  so  conse¬ 
crated  a  life.  Bishop  Maples,  from  his  earliest  childhood, 
had  the  power  of  winning  friends,  and,  even  after  his 
death,  his  letters  drew  many  hearts  to  him.  His  sister, 


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therefore,  in  response  to  this  desire,  prepared  for  publica¬ 
tion  his  Journal,  accounts  of  journeys  which  he  took  to 
places  hitherto  un visited  except  by  natives,  articles  which 
he  wrote  to  a  local  newspaper,  and  other  occasional  pa¬ 
pers  of  general  interest.  After  reading  his  life,  with  its 
many  references  to  these  journeys  and  to  the  circum¬ 
stances  which  led  to  the  preparation  of  the  papers,  one 
will  turn  to  this  volume  feeling  it  a  privilege  indeed  to 
read  more  of  what  he  has  written. 

Those  who  are  interested  in  the  progress  and  develop¬ 
ment  of  the  work  at  Likoma  will  be  pleased  at  the  frequent 
and  loving  reference  to  Bishop  Hine,  who  as  Dr. 
Hine  joined  the  work  while  Bishop  Maples  was  arch¬ 
deacon.  Mackenzie  did  his  best,  but  was  misled  by 
Livingstone.  Tozer  retrieved  the  mistakes.  Steere  made 
the  Swahili  language  a  living  possession  for  future  mis¬ 
sionaries,  Smythies  lengthened  the  cords  and  strengthened 
the  stakes.  Only  God  knows  what  Chauncy  Maples 
would  have  done,  had  his  life  been  spared. 

Maples,”  The  Building  of  the  “Chauncey,  by  A.  E.  M. 

Anderson-Morshead.  Cloth,  12mo. ,  pp.  122.  London:  The 

Universities'  Mission,  1903. 

When  Chauncey  Maples  was  drowned  in  Lake  Nyassa  a 
faithful  native  said  “God  liked  to  take  him  on  the  Lake 
Nyassa  to  consecrate  the  water  of  this  lake.”  So  it  is  not 
strange  that  the  permanent  memorial  of  this  missionary 
should  have  been  a  steamer  to  cruise  up  and  down  the 
waters  of  the  lake  to  carry  passengers,  mail  and  freight 
from  one  village  to  another,  to  have  on  board  a  permanent 
staff  of  teachers,  with  room  for  pupils  who  are  being  in¬ 
structed  to  carry  the  gospel  to  their  fellow  countrymen, 
and  to  serve  as  a  general  medium  of  intercommunication 
between  the  different  settlements. 

The  whole  story  of  the  building  of  the  steamer  in  England, 
its  being  packed  in  3,500  different  packages,  its  shipment 
to  the  mouth  of  the  Zambesi  and  its  carriage  by  natives 
to  the  shores  of  Lake  Nyassa,  where  it  was  again  put  to¬ 
gether,  is  one  of  absorbing  interest.  And  the  last  chapter, 
“The  Chauncey  Maples  at  Work”,  shows  what  an  impor- 


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tant  factor  in  the  lives  of  the  missionaries  at  Likoma  this 
vessel  has  already  become. 

This  story  of  the  steamer,  together  with  the  “Life”,  and 
“Letters  and  Journals”  form  a  trilogy  from  the  perusal 
of  which  no  reader  can  arise  without  a  thanksgiving 
for  the  “good  example  of  this,  Thy  servant.” 

Sim  ,  Life  and  Letters  of  Arthur  Fraser — Pioneer  Mission¬ 
ary  at  Kota  Kota  in  British  Central  Africa.  Paper. 
12mo. ,  pp.  270.  London :  Office  of  the  Universities’  Mission , 
Price  Is.  1896. 

We  have  had  many  biographies  of  men  who  were  chosen 
to  the  office  of  a  Bishop  in  the  Church  of  GOD,  but  none 
of  them  give  a  better  glimpse  of  an  heroic  soul  than  this 
biography  of  a  priest  who  died  after  only  eighteen  months’ 
service  in  Africa.  The  little  memorial  sketch  is  anony¬ 
mous,  but  is  written  with  great  grace  and  literary  facility 
as  well  as  with  directness  and  point.  Canon  Body  of 
Durham  Cathedral  writes  the  Introduction.  The  boy¬ 
hood  days,  the  University  lifi,  the  clerical  work  at  home, 
all  reveal  an  unusually  engaging  personality,  and  the  most 
delightful  letters  from  the  mission  station  with  their  plans 
and  drawings  give  one  a  rather  unusual  sense  of  friend¬ 
ship  for  the  writer.  His  constitution,  though  robust, 
could  not  stand  the  drain  of  repeated  attacks  of  the  African 
fever,  and  the  end  came  when  he  lacked  four  days  of 
completing  his  thirty-third  year. 

Smythies,  The  Life  of  Bishop,  by  Gertrude  Ward.  Edited 
by  Edward  Francis  Russell,  M.  A.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  271. 
London:  Universities’  Missions  to  Central  Africa,  1899. 

Smythies,  Bishop,  Mission  Heroes  Sr.  S.  P.  C.  K.  2d. 

A  second  edition  of  this  book  was  called  for,  within  three 
months  of  the  publication  of  the  first,  and  other  editions 
have  more  recently  appeared.  It  is  a  noteworthy  book 
in  several  ways.  The  subject  of  the  memoir  was  a  man 
of  great  personal  distinction  and  of  truly  saintly  life,  who 
gave  up  his  career  in  England  when  everything  pointed 
to  a  long,  a  happy  and  a  successful  ministry  and  who 
undertook  the  heartbreaking  and  wearisome  labor  of  a 
missionary  to  the  heathen  tribes  of  Central  Africa,  He 


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succeeded  and  entered  into  the  labors  of  Bishop  Steere, 
but  his  whole-souled  devotion  to  his  work  led  him  to  plan 
greater  and  greater  ventures,  each  one  entailing  long 
walks,  lasting  often  for  ten  or  twelve  days,  much  exposure 
to  the  weather  and  privations  of  all  kinds.  These  were 
the  days  of  the  undivided  Diocese,  in  which  now  two 
Bishops  find  their  time  more  than  full. 

His  episcopate  lasted  for  ten  years.  He  impaired  his 
health  by  his  long  hard  journeys,  his  overwhelming  zeal 
for  souls,  and  the  grief  at  the  death  of  so  many  of  his  mis¬ 
sionary  staff,  owing  to  the  unfavorable  climatic  condi¬ 
tions.  Before  the  end  came  the  Diocese  had  been  divided, 
and  he  had  the  comfort  of  the  support  of  a  brother  Bishop. 
He  was  but  fifty  years  old  when  he  died.  It  was  thought 
that  a  sea  voyage  might  check  the  low  fever  from  which 
he  suffered,  and  with  a  nurse  and  a  cousin  to  care  for  him 
he  was  taken  on  board  ship,  but  two  days  later  he  passed 
away,  and  his  body  was  committed  to  the  deep. 

Hardly  ever  has  a  Bishop’s  life  been  written  which  is  so  in¬ 
teresting,  so  picturesque,  so  thrilling  as  this.  Something 
is  due  to  Miss  Ward’s  literary  style,  but  most  of  all  it  is  the 
fascination  of  the  loyalty  to  high  ideals  wdiich  every  one 
feels  even  if  he  does  not  acknowledge.  Bishop  Smythies’ 
ideal  was  conformity  in  doctrine,  teaching  and  wmrship  to 
the  Catholic  tradition.  No  wonder  that  the  foundations 
he  laid  endure.  No  wonder  that  his  memory  is  still  so 
fondly  cherished,  or  that  the  story  of  his  life  has  become 
a  classic  of  the  Church  of  England. 

It  is  a  pity  not  to  be  able  to  gain  the  inspiration  which 
must  come  from  the  reading  of  these  lives,  but,  if  that  is 
not  possible,  the  short  sketch  is  of  much  value  to  the 
student  of  the  East  Central  Mission. 

Steere,  The  Life  of  Bishop,  by  Robert  M.  Heanley.  Cloth, 
post  8vo.  London:  E.  C.  Bell,  1888.  Price  8s.  6d. 

Steere,  Bishop,  Mission  Heroes  Series.  London:  S.  P.  C.  K. , 
Northumberland  Ave.,  W.  C.  Pamphlet  24  pp.  2d. 

One  of  the  most  stimulating  and  inspiring  books  on  our 
list  is  the  Life  of  Bishop  Steere,  who  succeeded  Bishop 
Tozer  in  1874  in  the  Universities’  Mission  at  Zanzibar 


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The  story  of  his  preparation  and  call  are  full  of  interest, 
and  his  early  studies  and  later  researches  fitted  him  all 
unconsciously  for  the  great  work  of  his  life — the  transla¬ 
tion  of  the  entire  New  Testament  and  several  books  of  the 
Old  Testament  into  the  Swahili  language.  Swahili  is 
the  great  trade  language  of  the  interior  of  Africa  and  is 
knowm  more  or  less  all  round  the  great  sweep  of  the 
Indian  Ocean  from  Ceylon  to  Madagascar.  It  was  from 
these  translations  in  the  hands  of  an  old  pupil  from  whom 
Bishop  Steere  did  not  expect  much,  that  Stanley  was  able 
to  give  Mtesa,  King  of  Uganda,  some  idea  of  the  Christian 
religion,  and  this  led  to  the  commencement  of  the  Church 
Missionary  Society’s  Mission  with  its  bright  hopes  and 
sad  experiences  and  ever  extending  operations.  The 
Bishop  also  translated  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  and 
some  of  the  best  of  our  Church  hymns,  into  the  Swahili 
language.  Bishop  Steere  was  not  only  a  man  of  wonder¬ 
ful  linguistic  gifts;  he  was,  according  to  Bishop  Words¬ 
worth,  eminent  as  a  philosopher,  a  preacher,  a  teacher 
and  a  man  of  affairs.  He  had  great  geniality  and  a 
wonderful  power  of  drawing  workers  about  him  and  in¬ 
spiring  them.  Even  after  so  many  years  the  story  of  his 
life  quickens  enthusiasm  and  fortifies  faith. 

The  small  pamphlet  is  well  written  and  is  useful  for  those 
who  want  the  main  facts  and  cannot  read  the  book  itself. 

Tozer  and  His  Sister,  The  Letters  of  Bishop.  Edited 
by  Gertrude  Ward.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp  304.  London:  The 
Universities’  Mission,  1902. 

No  one  can  read  these  letters  without  being  forcibly  re¬ 
minded  of  Milton’s  lines,  “They  also  serve  who  only  stand 
and  wait.”  Neither  can  any  person,  even  one  utterly 
indifferent  to  the  whole  subject  of  Missions,  read  them 
without  realizing  that  missionary  zeal  is  a  vital  and  a 
consuming  thing.  Here  was  a  man,  gently  born  and 
gently  bred,  living  what  some  people  think  one  of  the 
most  enviable  lives  in  the  world,  that  of  rector  in  a  rural 
English  parish,  giving  it  up  in  response  to  the  call,  and 
taking  the  place  of  Bishop  Mackenzie  who  was  the  first 
Bishop  to  the  tribes  of  Central  Africa. 


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Bishop  Tozer  had  had  no  experience  as  Missionary  priest. 
He  went  to  his  post  in  1863,  and  found  it  absolutely  nec¬ 
essary  to  inaugurate  work  on  totally  different  lines  from 
those  planned  by  his  predecessor.  He  was  not  sure  his 
plans  would  be  approved  by  the  Home  Office.  Mails 
were  delayed  and  destroyed  and  for  more  than  a  year 
he  was  compelled  to  defer  action.  His  letters  written 
at  this  time  are  heart-breaking.  Yet  his  plans  were  ap¬ 
proved  and  he  had  the  happiness  of  knowing  it,  and  of 
laying  some  permanent  foundations  before  he  was  forced 
to  return  home,  invalided.  And  he  lived,  with  shattered 
health,  for  twenty-five  years  after  his  return.  His  sister 
and  most  invaluable  helper  writes  charming  letters  with 
a  humor  that  sweetens  and  lightens  a  most  pathetic  and 
deeply  interesting  story  of  a  Missionary. 

Thousand  Miles  in  the  Heart  of  Africa,  A,  by  J.  Du  Plessis. 
Cloth,  16mo.,  pp.  169.  Edinburgh  and  London:  Oliphant, 
Anderson  &  Ferrier,  1905.  Price  3s.  6d. 

The  author  of  this  book  is  the  General  Mission  Secretary 
of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Missionary  Society,  and  it  is  an 
account  of  the  visit  which  he  made  to  the  various  mis¬ 
sion  stations  in  East  Central  Africa,  where  that  Society 
is  at  work.  From  the  Lake  regions  of  Central  Africa  to 
Southern  Rhodesia  is  a  chain  of  stations  where  satis¬ 
factory  progress  is  being  made.  The  desire  of  these 
missionaries  is  to  extend  their  work  westward,  as  there 
are  vast  reaches  of  country  where  not  a  single  Protestant 
missionary  is  at  work,  and  this  book  has  been  written  to 
extend  knowledge  and  awaken  missionary  enthusiasm. 
There  are  two  maps  and  twenty-nine  illustrations. 

Universities’  Mission  to  Central  Africa,  1859-1898.  The 
History  of  the,  by  A.  E.  M.  Anderson-Morshead,  with  a 
preface  by  Charlotte  Mary  Yonge.  Cloth,  12  mo,  pp.  452. 
London:  Office  of  the  Universities’  Mission  to  Central  Africa. 
Price,  3s.  6d.,  1905. 

One  is  irresistibly  reminded  of  the  eleventh  chapter  of 
Hebrews  with  its  martyr  roll  of  the  early  Church,  when 
one  reads  this  most  enthralling  book.  The  missionaries 
who  followed  so  closely  on  Livingstone’s  footsteps  had 


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true  apostolic  fervour,  and  partook  of  the  apostolic  suf¬ 
ferings.  One  can  read  at  greater  length,  in  the  different 
biographies  which  have  been  published,  of  Bishop  Mack¬ 
enzie’s  efforts,  and  the  mistakes  of  judgment  that  lessened 
his  influence  and  shortened  his  life,  of  Bishop  Tozer’s 
manly  efforts  to  repair  the  mistakes,  and  his  pathetic 
lingering  through  so  many  years  of  enforced  inactivity,  of 
Bishop  Steere’s  wide  views  and  statesmanlike  services, 
of  Bishop  Smythies’  manifold  labors  as  a  good  shepherd 
who  cared  for  his  individual  sheep;  but,  however  familiar 
we  are  with  the  lives  and  the  work  of  these  saintly  men, 
each  falls  into  his  own  place,  as  part  of  the  work  planned 
in  the  counsels  of  GOD,  when  we  read  the  continuous 
narrative  of  the  Universities’  Mission  for  nearly  forty 
years. 

It  is  one  of  the  peculiarities  of  the  work  in  this  field  that 
no  stipends  have  ever  been  paid  to  the  workers.  Board 
and  lodging,  and  in  a  few  exceptional  cases  passage  money 
and  some  help  toward  an  outfit,  is  all  that  is  given.  The 
workers  are,  therefore,  picked  men,  with  the  consecration 
which  includes  both  what  they  are  and  what  they  have, 
and  what  they  have  done  follows  as  a  natural  and  nec¬ 
essary  consequence.  In  combating  Mohammedanism, 
in  destroying  the  slave  trade,  in  training  workers,  in 
industrial  work,  in  caring  for  the  girls,  in  mothering  the 
little  ones,  their  work  is  far  reaching  and  blessed  in  its 
results.  See  also  Central  Africa  and  Uganda. 

EGYPT  AND  THE  EGYPTIAN  SOUDAN 

C.  M.  S.  History.  Vol.  1,  223,  227,  228,  350,  351,  263.  Vol. 
II,  140,  148.  Yol.  Ill,  123,  266,  514,  515,  522,  530,  746- 
750;  Medical  Missions  661,  807  to  year  1900.  After  that 
date,  “Story  of  the  Year”,  Missionary  Gleaner,  etc.  See 
Church  Missionary  Society. 

Egypt,  the  Making  of  Modern.  By  Sir  Auckland  Colvin. 
Cloth,  Demy  8vo.,pp.  416.  London:  Seeley  &  Co.,  1906. 
Price  18s. 

In  the  course  of  the  year  1882  an  outbreak  of  anarchy 
in  Egypt  led  to  British  occupation.  It  was  not  a  diffi¬ 
cult  matter  to  carry  positions  which  had  been  hastily 


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fortified  in  the  desert,  but  to  create  a  modern  Egypt,  to 
overcome  the  sustained  hostility  of  the  Turks,  to  combat 
the  ill  will  or  apathy  of  the  ruling  classes  in  Egypt,  to 
loosen  the  knot  of  financial  complication  and  to  make 
way  against  the  indifference  of  all  the  foreign  colonies 
was  a  task  which  required  years  of  patient  labor. 

This  book  tells  the  story  of  those  laborious  years.  Its 
author  is  the  British  Comptroller  General  in  Egypt  who 
took  part  in  all  the  financial  reconstruction  of  the  coun¬ 
try.  The  progress  and  development,  not  only  of  Egypt 
but  of  the  Soudan  as  well,  is  clearly  described  in  these 
pages.  Full  and  generous  acknowledgment  of  the  serv¬ 
ices  of  Lord  Cromer  and  his  assistants  is  given,  and  the 
book  will  remain  for  years  to  come  of  great  value  as  one 
of  reference. 

Nile,  To-day  on  the.  By  H.  W.  Dunning,  Ph.  D.  Cloth, 

12  mo.,  pp.  270.  New  York:  James  Pott  &  Co.,  1905. 

Price  $5.00 

To  the  would-be  or  expectant  traveller  this  volume  will 
be  one  of  great  value.  It  is  written  by  one  who  is  thor¬ 
oughly  familiar — not  only  with  modern  Egypt,  the 
proper  order  of  sight-seeing,  the  best  methods  of  travel, 
the  amount  of  time  and  money  required  and  other  im¬ 
portant  details,  but  of  ancient  Egypt  as  well — her  his¬ 
tory,  her  traditions  and  as  far  as  a  foreigner  may  be,  her 
very  mysteries.  The  chapters  on  The  Religion  and  Gods 
of  Egypt,  and  on  The  Egypt  of  To-day  show  plainly 
how  competent  and  careful  a  guide,  philosopher  and  friend 
he  is.  The  book  is  primarily  one  of  travel,  but  there  is  a 
good  deal  of  missionary  interest  as  well.  There  are  about 
seven  hundred  and  fifty  Coptic  Christians  in  Egypt,  and 
it  is  among  those  that  our  missionaries  of  varying  de¬ 
nominations  work.  There  are  nine  million  Mohamme¬ 
dans,  but  work  among  these  is  out  of  the  question.  It  is 
possible,  however,  to  lead  those  who  believe  in  a  low 
form  of  Christianity  to  one  that  is  purer  and  higher,  and 
the  children  are  bright,  intelligent  and  docile.  Beirut 
College,  the  institutions  of  the  United  Presbyterian  and 
other  religious  bodies  are  doing  a  good  work. 


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Ragged  Life  in  Egypt.  More  About  Ragged  Life  in 
Egypt.  By  Mary  L.  Whately.  Cloth  16  mo.,  pp.,  215  and 
212.  London:  Seeley,  Jackson  and  Halliday,  1863  and  1864. 
On  her  way  to  the  Holy  Land,  Miss  Whately,  the  daughter 
of  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  stopped  for  a  while  in  Egypt 
and  became  very  much  interested  in  work  among  the 
Moslems.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Society  for  Pro¬ 
moting  Female  Education  in  the  East,  and  her  efforts 
in  this  most  praiseworthy  undertaking  she  modestly  re¬ 
corded  in  a  very  inconspicuous  little  book.  She  returned 
to  England  for  a  time  and  the  work  languished,  because 
there  was  no  one  to  take  her  place.  After  the  death  of 
her  father  she  returned  to  Cairo  and  found  that  she  had 
not  been  forgotten  nor  had  her  work  perished,  and  she 
was  able  to  build  an  enduring  fabric  on  the  foundations 
she  had  previously  laid.  Her  books  are  now  out  of  print 
and  difficult  to  procure,  but  they  are  of  intense  and  ab¬ 
sorbing  interest  and  are  of  such  enduring  value  that  they 
already  rank  as  classics. 

River,  Land  and  Sun.  By  Minna  C.  Collock.  Cloth,  square 
12  mo.,  pp.  184.  London:  Church  Missionary  House. 

With  a  good  deal  of  poetic  fancy  and  imagery  the  author 
draws  a  parallel  between  the  sands,  the  river  and  the 
sunlight  of  Egypt,  and  the  multitudes,  the  missionary 
and  the  power  of  God.  It  is  a  record  of  the  work  the 
Church  Missionary  Society  is  doing  in  Egypt,  told  by  an 
Englishwoman  who  visited  the  different  missionary 
stations  and  accompanied  the  missionaries  in  their  daily 
rounds.  In  this  way  we  get  a  glimpse — more  than  a 
glimpse — an  extended  survey  of  the  work  which  is  being 
done,  by  the  women  missionaries  of  the  C.  M.  S.  more 
especially,  in  the  harems,  in  the  schools  for  the  rich  and 
the  poor,  on  the  desert  and  in  the  medical  missions  of 
Egypt.  The  story  is  told  with  much  spirit  and  humor, 
yet  with  a  deep  sense  of  the  spiritual  needs  of  the 
people.  The  concluding  chapter,  by  the  Rev.  Rennie 
Maclnness,  tells  something  of  the  work  among  the  men 
and  boys.  The  book  is  beautifully  printed  and  illustrated 
and  is  of  unusual  literary  value. 


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Sahara,  Among  the  Women  of  the.  By  Madame  Jean 
Pommerol,  translated  by  Mrs.  Arthur  Bell.  Cloth,  12  mo. , 
pp.  343.  London:  Hurst  &  Blackett,  1900.  Price  2s,  6d. 
Madame  Pommerol’s  apparent  object,  in  going  from  vil¬ 
lage  to  village  of  the  Sahara,  and  making  friends  with 
the  women  whose  language  she  appears  to  understand, 
seems  to  be  that  of  a  thoroughly  cynical  French  woman, 
pleased  to  find  how  many  traits  these  savage  women 
have  in  common  with  some  of  their  more  enlightened 
sisters — curiosity,  cunning,  cruelty,  envy  and  the  like. 
A  thoroughly  depraved  book. 

Soudan,  The  Egyptian,  by  J.  Kelly  Giffen,  D.  D.  Cloth 
16  mo.,  pp.  252.  New  York:  Fleming  H.  Revell  Co.  Price 
$1.00.  1905. 

It  would  be  difficult  to  speak  in  words  of  too  cordial  praise 
of  such  a  book  as  this.  Dr.  Giffen  and  his  wife,  with  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  McLaughlin,  four  tried  and  experienced  mis¬ 
sionaries  working  under  the  United  Presbyterian  Church 
of  North  America,  were  sent  from  Egypt,  where  they 
had  been  for  seventeen  years,  to  establish  a  mission  on 
the  Soobat  River,  among  the  tribe  called  the  Shulbas. 
Ever  since  the  tragic  and  pathetic  death  of  General 
Charles  Gordon  at  Khartoum,  the  Egyptian  Soudan  has 
occupied  a  large  place  in  the  thought  and  sympathy 
of  the  Western  world,  and  has  awakened  a  deep  and 
increasing  missionary  interest.  The  sorrows  and  suffer¬ 
ings  which  the  slave  trade  visited  upon  the  country,  the 
more  recent  desolation  caused  by  a  century  and  a  half 
of  Mahdi  rule,  the  strange  and  whole-hearted  devotion  of 
the  Soudanese  races  to  religious  though  false  ideals,  the 
martyrdom  of  Gordon,  the  realistic  and  hopeful  proph¬ 
ecy  of  Isaiah  concerning  this  part  of  Africa,  and  finally 
the  present  destitution  of  the  land  and  the  largeness 
of  the  missionary  opportunity — all  these  unite  in  their 
appeal  to  the  sympathy  and  missionary  interest  of  Chris¬ 
tendom.  Whoever  wishes  for  a  book  which  will  show 
the  missionary  as  he  is  to-day,  with  his  devotion  to  duty, 
his  courage,  cheerfulness,  resourcefulness  and  consecra¬ 
tion,  will  do  well  to  read  “The  Egyptian  Soudan.”  As 


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a  book  for  circulation  among  the  readers  of  a  Mission 
Study  class  it  would  be  hard  to  find  its  equal. 

Eliot,  Sir  Charles.  The  East  African  Protectorate.  See 
Uganda. 

Ellis,  A.  B.  The  Yoruba,  the  Ewe,  and.  The  Tshi  Speaking 
Peoples  of  West  Africa.  See  West  Africa. 


F 


Fetichism  in  West  Africa.  Robt.  Hammil  Nassau.  See 
West  Africa. 

Fisher,  Ruth  H.  On  the  Borders  of  Pygmy  Land.  See 
Uganda. 


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GENERAL 

Actual  Africa,  or  the  Coming  Continent.  Frank  Vincent. 

Cloth,  8  vo.,  pp.  528.  New  York:  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  1895. 
Although  this  book  is  by  no  means  recent,  the  picture  of 
Africa  as  a  whole  which  it  presents  is  very  similar  to  a 
book  of  the  same  general  plan  which  might  be  published 
to-day.  The  unalterableness  of  the  Orient  is  one  of  its  most 
salient  characteristics,  and  if  a  traveller  were  this  year  to 
start  from  Gibraltar  and  sail  across  the  straits  to  the  coast 
of  Africa,  and  after  visiting  Tangiers,  Morocco,  Fez,  the 
Sahara  and  Tripoli,  make  his  way  into  Egypt  and  from 
there  go  to  Mauritius  and  Madagascar,  then  returning  to 
the  mainland  go  to  Zanzibar,  German  East  Africa,  Cape 
Colony,  the  Diamond  District  and  Johannesburg,  then, 
after  a  detour  by  Madeira,  visit  the  settlements  on  the 
West  Coast,  the  Congo  Free  State,  the  Niger  Territory 
and  the  Guinea  Coast,  making  his  way  home  by  Las 
Palmas  for  Marseilles,  he  would  see  the  same  types  of 
people,  the  same  scenery,  and  in  most  of  the  places  named 
a  good  deal  the  same  condition  of  affairs.  For  this  rea¬ 
son,  it  is  by  no  means  a  supplanted  book,  and  will  give 
the  general  reader  a  good  and  sufficient  bird's-eye  view 
of  the  wonderful  continent  as  a  whole.  Mr.  Vincent’s 
attitude  is  that  of  the  optimistic  cosmopolitan,  who 
thinks  that  the  condition  of  the  world  is  good — that  it 
is  going  to  be  even  better,  and  that  the  resources  and 
fertility  of  a  great  continent  are  factors  toward  this  most 
excellent  and  desirable  end. 

Black  Man's  Garden,  Around  the,  by  Zelie  Colville. 

Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  341.  London:  Wm.  Blackwood  &  Son. 

1S93.  Price  16s. 

This  is  a  book  of  travels  written  by  a  woman,  and  is  a 
good  natured  and  kindly  account  of  a  cruise  around  the 
island  of  Madagascar  with  excursions  to  the  inland,  and 
visits  to  Zanzibar  and  the  West  Coast,  but  it  contains 
nothing  of  much  interest  or  value  to  readers  of  other 
books  on  the  same  general  subject. 


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Christianity  from  the  Birth  of  Christ  to  the  Abolition 
of  Paganism  in  the  Roman  Empire,  The  History  of,  by 
Henry  Hart  Milman,  D.  D.,  Dean  of  St.  Paul's.  3  vols.  in  2. 
Cloth,  8vo. ,  pp.  485  and  507.  New  York:  Thomas  Y. 
Crowell,  1881. 

“Milman’s  Latin  Christianity”  has  for  many  years  occu¬ 
pied  the  pre-eminent  place  among  Ecclesiastical  Histo¬ 
ries,  and  it  is  only  necessary  here  to  mention  the  present 
edition  as  one  of  convenient  size,  good  type  and  reason¬ 
able  price.  Any  reader  who  cares  for  the  story  of  the 
beginnings  of  Christianity  will  be  more  than  repaid  by 
the  perusal  of  the  whole  book.  Certainly  Mission  Study 
teachers  who  wish  to  create  in  their  minds  a  picture  of 
what  the  great  centers  of  Christianity,  such  as  Rome, 
Antioch  and  Alexandria,  were  like  in  Apostolic  days,  will 
find  that  the  chapter  on  Rome  and  Paganism  in  the  first, 
Christianity  and  Orientalism  in  the  second,  and  The 
Roman  Empire  under  Christianity  in  the  third  volume, 
are  of  very  definite  and  special  value. 

Christus  Liberator.  By  Ellen  C.  Parsons.  Paper,  16  mo., 
pp.  284.  New  York:  The  Macmillan  Co.  1905.  Price  50c. 
Mrs.  Parsons’  book  is  well  known  to  hundreds,  perhaps 
thousands,  of  people  who  have  used  it  in  Mission  Study 
classes.  It  is  the  standard  text-book  among  Congrega- 
tionalists  and  has  been  used  by  many  classes  in  other 
religious  bodies.  It  is  thoroughly  up-to-date,  and  packed 
with  information,  and  its  tone  is  so  courteous  and  gener¬ 
ous,  and  its  acknowledgment  of  the  work  of  other  mission¬ 
aries  than  their  own  is  so  unqualified,  that  it  is  a  model 
of  what  such  a  book  ought  to  be.  A  very  useful  table, 
showing  just  where  each  missionary  society  of  the  world 
is  doing  its  work,  and  an  excellent  bibliography,  arranged 
by  topics,  add  greatly  to  its  value. 

Colonization  of  Africa,  The.  By  Sir  Harry  H.  Johnston. 
Cloth,  16  mo.,  pp.  315.  Cambridge:  The  University  Press. 
1905. 

There  is  great  value  in  this  book,  but  it  would  be  idle  to 
suppose  that  the  value  lay  on  the  surface.  It  is  only  to 
be  got  by  digging,  and  hard  digging.  It  is  one  of  a  series, 


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intended  for  the  use  of  persons  anxious  to  understand 
the  nature  of  existing  political  conditions.  The  real 
significance  of  political  events  cannot  be  grasped  unless 
the  historical  causes  which  have  led  to  them  are  known, 
and  the  different  volumes  of  the  series  display  the  con¬ 
tinuity  of  historical  development  in  the  different  coun¬ 
tries  which  are  described.  The  book  is  not  large,  is  closely 
printed  and  has  few  maps.  The  subject  is  thus  much 
condensed.  Volumes  have  been  written  on  topics  which 
are  here  disposed  of  in  a  few  lines.  Neverthless,  the 
name  of  the  author  is  a  guarantee  of  the  solid  worth  of 
the  book,  and  the  last  chapter,  “Latest  Developments’' 
is  worth  reading  by  all  who  are  making  a  study  of  Africa, 
even  if  there  is  not  time  for  the  book  as  a  whole. 

Dawn  on  the  Dark  Continent.  By  James  Stewart.  Cloth, 
16  mo.,  pp.  370.  New  York:  Fleming  H.  Revell  Co., 
1903.  Price  $2.00. 

This  is  not  merely  one  of  the  most  recent  books  on  the 
missionary  outlook  in  Africa,  but  one  of  the  most  au¬ 
thoritative.  The  author,  a  Presbyterian  missionary, 
has  for  years  been  at  work  in  the  field,  and  has  taken 
great  pains  to  obtain  all  available  statistics  regarding 
the  work  which  has  been  done  by  all  bodies  of  Christians. 
He  speaks  most  hopefully  of  the  present  outlook  and  his 
encouraging  words  should  be  a  stimulus  to  all  who  are 
interested  in  missions. 

Islam  in  Africa.  By  Anson  P.  Atterbury.  Cloth,  16  mo., 
pp.  117.  New  York:  G.  P.  Putnam’s  Sons,  1899.  Price, 
$1.25. 

This  most  fascinating  subject  is  treated  in  so  luminous 
and  convincing  a  manner  that  one  feels  deep  regret  that 
the  book  contains  so  few  pages.  It  is  a  very  clear  pre¬ 
sentation  of  the  part  the  Mohammedan  faith  is  taking 
in  the  semi-civilization  of  the  African  tribes.  We  at 
home  would  take  issue  with  Mr.  Atterbury  in  the  state¬ 
ment  of  his  belief  that  Mohammedanism  is  better  for  the 
African  than  Paganism,  yet  he  qualifies  this  statement 
by  saying  that  he  found  it  far  more  difficult  to  reach  and 
hold  those  who  have  been  brought  under  its  influence 


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than  those  who  have  no  religion  but  Fetichism.  It  is  an 
admirable  book  for  the  teacher,  and  one  of  the  most 
interesting  in  the  list. 

Islam,  The  Preaching  of.  A  History  of  the  Propagation  of 
the  Moslem  Faith,  by  T.  W.  Arnold,  B.  A.  Cloth,  8vo.,  pp. 
346.  Westminster:  Archibold  Constable  &  Co.,  1896. 

The  writer  of  this  book,  who  was  professor  of  philosophy 
at  a  Mohammedan  Anglo-Oriental  College  in  India,  has 
written  a  most  scholarly  and  exhaustive  work  which 
treats  the  whole  subject  of  Islam  from  the  point  of  view  of 
a  missionary  religion.  It  is,  in  fine,  a  brief  for  the  de¬ 
fense.  He  tells  the  story  of  its  spread  among  the  Chris¬ 
tian  nations  of  Western  Asia,  in  Africa,  Spain,  in  Europe 
under  the  Turks,  in  India,  China  and  the  Malay  Archi¬ 
pelago.  One  can  realize  from  this  what  a  terrible  menace 
it  is  to  the  Christian  religion  and  how  inadequate  are  our 
missionary  forces  to  cope  with  it.  The  history  of  the 
birth  of  their  missionary  zeal,  its  inspiring  forces,  and  the 
modes  of  its  activity  are  the  subjects  which  occupy  these 
pages.  For  the  earnest  student  it  is,  of  course,  a  book  of 
great  value,  but  we  question  the  desirability  of  recom¬ 
mending  a  book  like  this  for  the  use  of  Mission  Study 
classes. 

Mohammedan  Missionary  Problem,  The,  by  the  Rev.  Henry 
W.  Jessup,  D.  D.  Cloth,  16mo.,  pp.  138.  Philadelphia: 
Presbyterian  Board  of  Publication,  1879. 

The  author,  who  was  for  twenty-five  years  missionary  in 
Syria,  in  this  little  volume  treats  of  those  features  of 
Islam  which  are  favorable  to  the  acceptance  of  Christian¬ 
ity  by  its  believers,  and  those  which  are  unfavorable. 
The  problem  which  demands  the  attention  of  the  Christian 
Church  is:  How  to  give  greater  efficiency  to  missionary 
agencies  already  employed  in  Mohammedan  countries, 
and  how  to  bring  new  forces  to  bear  upon  Islam.  The 
book  is  sadly  out  of  date  but  it  contains  much  information 
regarding  past  conditions  in  Mohammedan  countries, 
and  is  cheerful  and  optimistic  in  tone. 


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Mohammedan  World  of  To-Day,  The,  edited  by  S.  M- 
Tremer,  F.  R.  G.  S.,  E.  M.  Wherry,  D.  D.,  James  L.  Barton, 
D.  D.,  and  Samuel  Marinus.  Cloth,  12mo.,  pp.  321.  New 
York:  F.  H.  Re  veil  Co.,  1906. 

This  is  a  collection  of  papers  which  were  read  at  the  first 
Missionary  Conference  on  behalf  of  the  Mohammedan 
world,  which  was  held  at  Cairo,  from  April  4  to  April  9, 
1906.  The  writers  are  all  men  who  have  especial  knowl¬ 
edge  of  a  very  difficult  and  complicated  subject,  and  who 
have  approached  it  with  reverent  care  and  understanding , 
with  the  zeal  of  Christian  missionaries,  and  the  scientific 
spirit  of  men  of  affairs.  It  will  long  remain  one  of  the 
most  outspoken  and  authoritative  collections  of  docu¬ 
ments  on  the  subject. 

Notes  on  Africa  for  Missionary  Students.  Cloth,  16  mo., 
pp.  71.  London:  Church  Missionary  Society.  Price  Is.  6d. 
There  is  so  much  to  be  learned  about  Africa  in  its  many 
different  aspects  that  it  is  easy  to  forget  that  our  main 
object  is  to  learn  about  missionaries  and  the  result  of 
their  labors.  The  especial  value  of  this  book  is  that  it 
condenses  the  wisdom  of  many  books  and  many  writers. 
It  disengages  the  trivial  and  occasional  from  the  vital 
and  spiritual  and  puts  Africa,  as  a  mission  field,  before 
us.  As  a  hand  book  for  reference  there  is  constant  and 
imperative  need  for  it. 

Price  of  Africa,  The.  By  S.  Earl  Taylor.  Cloth,  16  mo., 
pp.  225.  New  York:  Eaton  &  Mains,  1902. 

This  is  one  of  the  text-books  on  Africa  of  the  Forward 
Mission  Studv  Courses,  and  is  authorized  for  use  in  the 
Society  of  Christian  Endeavor  and  the  Epworth  League. 
It  tells,  very  simply  and  directly,  the  price  which  has 
thus  far  been  paid  for  the  redemption  of  Africa,  and  illus¬ 
trates  it  by  the  life  of  four  of  her  most  noteworthy  martyrs, 
Livingstone,  Mackay,  Good  and  Cos.  The  two  latter 
names  will  be  unfamiliar  to  many  readers,  but  the  story 
of  their  lives  and  their  heroic  deaths,  will  stimulate  and 
inspire  all.  The  purchase  money  has  not  yet  been  fully 
paid  in.  Many,  many  more  missionaries  will  succumb  to 
malaria,  African  fever  and  hardships  of  all  sorts,  but 


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the  word  of  the  Lord  standeth  sure,  and  we  are  definitely 
promised  that  “in  that  day” — the  day  of  the  consumma¬ 
tion  of  all  things,  the  present  shall  be  brought  to  the 
Lord  of  hosts,  of  this  people,  terrible  from  its  beginnings. 
To  work  for  Africa,  to  pray  for  Africa,  is  to  pray  for  the 
accomplishing  the  number  of  God’s  elect,  and  the  hasten¬ 
ing  of  His  kingdom. 

Redemption  of  Africa,  The.  By  the  Rev.  Perry  Noble. 
D.  D.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  776.  2  vols.  New  York:  Flem¬ 

ing  H.  Revell  Co.,  1899.  Price  $4.00. 

Perhaps  the  sight  of  these  two  large  and  closely  printed 
volumes  may  appal  some  would-be-readers,  and  it  must 
be  admitted  that  they  are  not  books  to  finish  in  a  week’s 
time.  They  have  the  value  of  a  good  encyclopaedia, 
however,  for  they  form  the  most  exhaustive  work  on 
Africa  which  has  yet  been  published.  It  is  difficult,  at 
first,  to  select  the  portions  which  really  bear  upon  the 
problems  of  to-day.  But  after  a  subject  has  begun  to 
take  shape  in  the  reader’s  mind  it  may  be  enlarged  and 
modified  by  recourse  to  Dr.  Noble’s  most  thoughtful, 
comprehensive  and  authoritative  volumes. 

Tropical  Africa,  by  Ilenrv  Drummond,  LL.  D.  Cloth, 
12mo.,  pp.  221.  New7  York:  Scribner  and  Welford,  1888. 
A  more  delightful  book  on  Africa,  though  dealing  only 
incidentally  with  missions,  it  would  be  hard  to  find.  Just 
as  some  days  are  “beckoning  days”  when  every  leaf  on 
every  tree  says,  “Come  out,”  so  this  book  is  a  beckoning 
book.  It  is  more.  It  is  a  compelling  book.  One  is  con¬ 
strained  to  fare  forth  with  Henry  Drummond,  to  follow 
his  leadership,  to  agree  with  his  scientific  theories,  to  be 
filled  with  wonder  at  his  tales  and  with  fear  at  his  prognos¬ 
tications.  The  chapters  on  the  White  Ant,  A  Theory 
and  Mimicry  have  become  famous.  They  recall  Grant 
Allen  at  his  best  ,  and  were  notable  contributions  in  their 
day  to  popular  science. 

Giffen  J.  Kelly.  The  Egyptian  Soudan.  See  Egypt  and  the 

Soudan. 

Gilman,  Bp.  Hannington.  10  cts.  C.  M.  P.  C.  (Pamphlet.) 


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Gold  Coast,  Past  and  Present,  The.  George  Macdonald. 
See  West  Africa. 

Goldie,  Hugh.  Calabar  and  its  Mission.  See  West  Africa. 
Gollock,  Mina  C.  River,  Land  and  Sun.  See  Egypt  and  the 
Soudan. 


H 

Halsey,  A.  W.  Visit  to  the  West  African  Missions.  See 
West  A  frica. 

Hall,  Martin  T.  Through  My  Spectacles  in  Uganda.  See 
Uganda. 

Hannington,  Life  of  James.  E.  C.  Dawson.  See  Uganda. 

Hannington,  Last  Journals  of  Bishop.  E.  C.  Dawson.  See 
Uganda. 

Harford,  Batters  by,  C.  Pilkington  of  Uganda.  See  Uganda. 

Hausa  Land.  Chas.  H.  Robinson.  See  West  Africa. 

Hazzledene,  George  D.  The  White  Man  in  Nigeria.  See 
West  Africa. 

Heanley,  Robert  M.  Life  of  Bishop  Steere.  See  Central 
Africa. 

Hinterland,  The  Sherbro  and  its.  T.  J.  Aldridge.  See 
West  Africa. 

Hughes,  Thomas.  David  Livingstone.  See  Central  Africa 


I 

Islam  in  Africa,  by  Anson  P.  Atterbury.  See  General. 
Islam,  The  Preaching  of,  by  T.  W.  Arnold.  See  General. 


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J 

Jessup,  H.  W.  Mohammedan  Missionary  Problem.  See  General. 
Johnston,  Sir  Harry.  Liberia.  See  West  Africa. 

Johnston,  Sir  Harry'.  The  Uganda  Protectorate.  See  Uganda. 
Johnston,  J.  Reality  versus  Romance  in  Central  Africa.  See 
Central  Africa. 


K 

Kaffraria,  Eight  Years  in.  By  A.  S.  Gibson.  See  South 
Africa. 

Kemp,  Demiss.  Nine  Years  on  the  Gold  Coast.  See  West  Africa. 
Kingsley,  Mary.  Travels  in  West  Africa,  West  African  Studies. 
See  West  Africa. 

Knox-Little.  Sketches  in  South  Africa.  See  South  Africa. 


L 

Liberia,  Sir  Harry  Johnston.  See  West  Africa. 

Livingstone,  David.  See  Central  Africa. 

Luggard,  Brig.  General.  Uganda  and  its  People.  See 
Uganda. 


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M 

MacDonald,  George.  The  Gold  Coast  past  and  present.  See 
West  Africa. 

Mackay  of  Uganda.  Memoir  by  his  sister.  See  Uganda. 

MADAGASCAR 

Menabe,  Among  the.  By  the  Rev.  George  Herbert  Smith, 
M.  A.  London:  S.  R  C.  K,  1896. 

This  is  an  account  of  a  not  very  successful  attempt  to 
establish  a  mission  among  the  wild  people  of  Madagas¬ 
car.  The  missionaries  were  overwhelmed  with  the  novel 
features  of  the  work,  and  their  zeal  was  not  according 
to  knowledge.  The  book  is  not  of  any  especial  interest 
or  value,  too  full  of  detail,  and  overburdened  with  un¬ 
pronounceable  names. 

Matebele,  Among  the.  See  South  Africa. 

Miracle  of  African  Missions,  by  Robert  Bell.  See  West  Africa. 

MOMBASA 

C.  M.  S.  History.  Kraff  at  Mombasa,  vol.  I,  375,  459,  260. 
RebmamTs  prophecy  vol.  II,  433.  Yol.  Ill,  83,  85,  91-92; 
429-732.  Bishopric  founded  731,  732,  766,  807.  See  also 
Church  Missionary  Society  and  Uganda. 

Mohammedan  Missionary'  Problem,  by  H.  W.  Jessup.  See 
General. 

Mohammedan  World  To-Day.  See  General. 

Mullins,  J.  D.  The  Wonderful  Story  of  Uganda.  See  Uganda. 


N 

Ne vinson,  Henry  W.  A  Modern  Slavery. 

Niger  Country,  In  the.  H.  Bindloss.  See  West  Africa. 
Nigeria,  The  White  Man  in.  D.  Hazzledene.  See  West  Africa. 
Nile,  To-Day  on  the.  H.  W.  Dunning.  See  Egypt  and  the 
Soudan. 

Noble,  F.  P.  The  Redemption  of  Africa.  See  General. 


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P 


Palgrave,  Life  of  Livingstone.  See  Central  Africa. 

Pierson,  A.  L.  Seven  Years  in  Sierra  Leone.  See  West 
Africa. 

Pilkington  of  Uganda.  C.  Harford-Buttersby.  See  Uganda. 
Portal,  Sir  Gerald  H.  The  Mission  to  Uganda.  See  Uganda. 
Price  of  Africa.  By  S.  Earl  Taylor.  See  General. 

Pygmy  Land,  On  the  Borders  of.  R.  H.  Fisher.  See  Central 
Africa. 


R 

Rawley,  H.  Twenty  Years  in  Central  Africa.  See  Central 
Africa. 

Redemption  of  Africa,  The.  Frederick  P.  Noble.  See  Gen¬ 
eral. 

River,  Land  and  Sun.  Mina  C.  Gollock.  See  Egypt. 
Robinson,  Charles  Henry.  Hansa  Land.  See  West  Africa. 


S 

SOUTH  AFRICA 

Callaway,  Memoir  of  Bishop.  By  Benham,  Macmillan  & 
Co.  6s. 

Bishop  Callaway  was  in  charge  of  the  Diocese  of  St.  John’s 
from  1873  to  1886  and  his  memoir  gives  a  picture  of 
missions  and  South  Africa  during  those  years. 

Capetown  to  Ladysmith,  From.  An  unfinished  record  of 
the  South  African  War.  By  G.  W.  Steevens.  Cloth,  16mo., 
pp.  198.  New  York:  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co. 

One  must  approach  this  volume  with  reverence.  Mr. 
Steevens,  one  of  the  most  brilliant  newspaper  writers 
the  world  has  ever  seen,  died  while  in  South  Africa,  and 


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his  letters  written  from  there,  together  with  a  most 
sympathetic  sketch  of  his  life,  make  up  the  present 
modest  volume.  It  is  safe  to  say,  that  by  reading  this, 
one  gets  a  better  idea  of  what  life  in  a  besieged  town  really 
is  than  by  reading  any  number  of  ordinary  books  of  travel. 
More  than  this,  one  gets  a  better  idea  of  the  values  of 
words — of  the  color  that  a  literary  artist  can  put  on  a 
page— of  the  wonderful  pictures  which  he  can  present 
to  the  retina  of  the  mind’s  eye,  than  he  can  obtain  from 
almost  any  contemporary  writer. 

It  was  a  brilliant  mind  which  evoked  these  extraordin¬ 
arily  realistic  impressions  of  army  scenes,  and  the  feeling 
of  personal  loss  must  come  to  all  who  read.  The  book 
is  only  a  fragment,  but  so  significant  a  fragment  that, 
taken  with  more  diffuse,  more  ordered  and  more  finished 
writings  on  the  same  subject,  it  sends  forth  a  fragrance 
and  casts  a  halo  on  the  whole  field  of  which  it  is  a  part. 
The  portrait  of  the  author  in  frontispiece  is  a  noteworthy 
one.  There  is  something  prophetic  in  the  face — almost 
as  if  the  author  had  a  premonition  of  his  sudden  and 
unlooked  for  end,  just  as  recognition,  honors,  and  all 
the  rewards  of  this  life  were  being  showered  upon  him. 

Church  in  Greater  Britain.  The.  Lecture  VII — “In  the 
Province  of  South  Africa Being  the  Donellan  lectures 
delivered  before  the  University  of  Dublin.  By  the  Ven. 
Archdeacon  Wynne.  S.  P.  G.  Tufton  St  Westminster, 
1903.  By  post  Is.  9d. 

Gray,  Life  of  Robert.  Bishop  of  Cape  Town  and  Metro¬ 
politan  of  Africa.  Edited  by  his  son,  the  Rev.  Charles 
Gray,  M.  A.  2  vols.  Cloth,  8  vo.,  pp.  .536  and  655.  With 
portrait  and  map.  London:  Rivingtons.  1876. 

Gray,  Bishop.  S.  P.  G.  K.  1  penny. 

Bishop  Gray  of  Capetown,  while  a  Missionary  Bishop  to 
Africa,  was  spared  many  of  those  humilating  and  exhaust¬ 
ing  experiences  with  which  we  are  made  familiar  in  the 
story  of  the  lives  of  the  missionary  bishops  in  Central 
Africa.  But  he  was  not  on  that  account  free  from  many 
painful  and  sad  experiences.  Capetown  was  already  a 
place  of  many  natural  and  acquired  advantages  when 


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he  made  it  his  place  of  residence,  and  the  Church  was  well 
established  and  prospering.  Bishop  Gray’s  apostolic 
zeal  led  him  to  establish  not  only  Churches  and  schools 
in  the  country  round  about,  but  to  take  measures  to 
create  Christian  settlements,  where  people  wishing  to 
lead  virtuous  lives  should  be  supported  and  comforted 
by  neighbors  and  associates  who  were  like  minded.  He 
was,  first  of  all,  an  organizer,  and  this  power  of  vision 
and  strength  in  execution,  led  to  his  greatest  happiness 
and  successes  and  his  greatest  failures.  His  ideals  were 
so  high  and  his  certainty  that  he  could  carry  out  his 
plans,  if  given  a  free  hand,  was  so  great,  that  he  resented 
any  interference.  The  natural  result  was  friction  to  some 
extent  with  his  clergy — to  a  very  much  greater  extent  with 
the  government  of  South  Africa.  The  most  distressing  case 
of  Dr.  Colenso,  Bishop  of  Natal,  drew  to  a  focus  and 
entailed  ceaseless  correspondence,  growing  anxiety  and 
much  censure  from  home.  But  he  steadily  maintained 
his  points  and  finally  carried  them.  He  established  a 
flourishing  sisterhood  and  corresponded  with  Dr.  Benson 
regarding  a  brotherhood  of  Mission  Priests,  which  finally 
was  established  and  has  done  marvelous  work  among 
the  Kafirs  and  Zulus.  The  end  came  while  he  was  still 
strong  and  capable  of  much  service  to  the  Church.  He 
died,  as  did  Bishop  Wilberforce,  from  injuries  resulting 
from  the  fall  from  a  horse. 

Kaffraria,  Eight  Years  in.  By  Alan  G.  S.  Gibson,  M.A. 

London:  Wells  Gardner  Darton  &  Co.,  1890. 

An  account  of  the  work  which  God  hath  wrought  in  this 
tribe.  They  are  the  only  people  in  the  British  Protec¬ 
torate  who  are  not  obliged  to  pay  Hut  Tax  to  England, 
and  they  are  exempt  because  their  chiefs  have  shown 
themselves  capable  of  managing  the  affairs  of  their  own 
country  without  compelling  the  interference  of  the  Ad¬ 
ministration  of  the  Protectorate,  and  have  at  the  same 
time  maintained  a  friendly  attitude  toward  the  English, 
allowing  them  to  come  and  settle  on  their  territory. 
All  this  is  the  direct  outcome  of  the  work  of  the  Living- 
stonia  Mission  in  matters  material.  Concerning  spir- 


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itual  results,  one  has  only  to  read  the  last  ten  pages  of 
the  book  describing  a  Communion  Service  at  one  of  the 
Mission  stations,  to  realize  the  power  of  God  in  changing 
the  lives  of  these  untutored  savages.  (The  reader  must 
read  the  recent  numbers  of  the  Mission  Field  to  find  the 
present  condition  of  these  Missions.) 

Kafir  Life,  Sketches  of.  By  Godfrey  Callaway,  Mission 
Priest  of  St.  Cuthbert.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  154.  Oxford 
and  London:  A.  R.  Mowbray,  Limited,  1905.  Price  2s.  6d. 
The  work  of  St.  Cuthbert’s  Mission  for  Kafirs  in  South 
Africa  is  under  the  direction  of  the  Mission  Priests  of 
St.  John  the  Evangelist,  and  these  sketches,  written  by 
the  priest  in  charge,  gives  an  excellent  idea  of  the  work 
which  they  are  carrying  on  in  South  Africa.  The  de¬ 
scription  of  the  character  of  the  natives,  the  training  they 
receive,  and  their  social  and  political  situation  is  a  vivid 
one,  and  is  written  with  buoyancy  and  courage.  The 
necessities  of  the  Mission  are  many  and  varied,  and  the 
outside  demands  upon  them  are  incessant.  New  build¬ 
ings  are  being  planned  for  and  the  proceeds  from  the 
sale  of  the  book  are  to  be  used  to  help  defray  the  expense 
of  their  erection. 

Lesuto,  In  the.  By  Canon  Widdecombe.  S.  P.  C.  K. 
Northumberland  Ave.,  W.  C.  London.  6s.  Sold  also  at 
S.  P.  G.  Office,  Tufton  St.,  Westminster,  S.  W.,  London. 
The  S.  P.  G.  recommend  this  book  as  one  that  gives  a 
picture  of  that  part  of  the  field. 

Mashon aland,  Memorials  of,  Mashonaland  Mission,  Jour¬ 
nals  of  the.  By  Bishop  Knight-Bruce.  Arnold  Pub.  10s. 
fid.  S.  P.  G.  2s. 

Matebele,  Among  the.  By  Carnegie.  Rel.  Tract  Society, 
Paternoster  Rowr,  London. 

Valuable  as  giving  the  history  of  the  early  days  of  the 
mission  in  Rhodesia.  The  record  of  Bishop  Knight- 
Bruce’s  heroic  pioneering  journeys  is  given  in  the  first 
twro.  Subsequent  publications  must  be  consulted  to 
bring  the  narrative  up  to  date — especially  the  S.  P.  G. 
annual  reports  and  late  numl^ers  of  the  Mission  Field. 


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8.  P.  G.  in  South  Africa,  Here  and  There  with  the.  By 
post,  Is.  3d.  and  fully  illustrated.  S.  P.  G.  office,  Tufton 
St.,  Westminster,  S.  W.,  London. 

This  is  a  small  and  attractive  little  book  giving  a  very 
brief  outline,  well  illustrated,  of  the  great  work  of  the 
Venerable  Society  in  South  Africa,  where  it  has  spent 
over  £1,000,000  ($5,000,000),  helped  to  establish  and 
endow  seven  Bishoprics,  and  has  maintained  nearly  six 
hundred  missionaries.  The  earnest  student  of  the  his¬ 
tory  of  the  propagation  of  the  Gospel  will  not  be  satisfied  by 
so  sketchy  an  outline, but  will  turn  to  the  less  attractively 
printed  but  invaluable  pages  of  the  large  Digest  “Two 
Hundred  Years  of  the  S.  P.  G.  (1701-1901)”.  For  the 
History  of  the  work  in  South  Africa  see  pp.  268-385,  and 
the  more  recent  articles  in  “The  Mission  Field”  and  The 
East  and  West,  and  the  S.  P.  G.  Annual  Report.  See 
Society  for  the.  Propagation  of  the.  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts, 
etc. 

South  Africa,  Impressions  of.  By  James  Bryce.  Cloth, 
8vo.,  pp.  495.  New  York:  The  Century  Co.,  1897. 

Mr.  Bryce’s  temperate,  painstaking,  judicial  character 
leaves  its  impress  on  every  work  which  comes  from  his 
pen.  Going  to  South  Africa  for  “impressions,”  he  is 
above  all  things  anxious  that  they  shall  be  sharp,  clear 
cut  and  distinct,  and  for  this  reason  considers  no  pains 
too  great,  no  investigations  too  minute.  He  considers 
South  Africa  as  a  whole,  and  then  studies  her  in  detail, 
geographically,  politically,  ethnographically  and  other¬ 
wise.  He  even  devotes  a  chapter  to  missions,  or  rather, 
to  the  not  unimportant  part  which  missionaries  have 
taken  in  developing  the  naturally  good  instincts  and  ca¬ 
pacities  of  the  tribesman.  No  one  can  really  know  South 
Africa  as  a  whole  without  knowing  Mr.  Bryce’s  book, 
which  is  as  foremost  among  books  of  African  travel  as  is 
The  Holy  Roman  Empire  and  The  American  Common¬ 
wealth  in  their  respective  fields  of  investigation.  Al¬ 
though  it  was  written  ten  years  ago,  and  many  interest¬ 
ing  developments  in  South  Africa  are  of  a  more  recent 
date,  the  book  is  as  valuable  and  forceful  as  ever.  To 


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the  student  who  is  contemplating  the  serious  study  of 
one  of  the  great  coming  countries  of  the  world,  if,  indeed, 
she  has  not  already  arrived,  there  is  nothing  to  be  com¬ 
pared  with  it  for  giving  an  exhaustive  survey  of  conditions 
—a  sane  summary  of  the  political  situation,  and  inci¬ 
dentally,  many  glimpses  of  the  social  life  of  the  people, 
which  he  had  unusual  opportunities  to  see. 

South  Africa,  Sketches  and  Studies  in.  By  W.  J.  Knox 
Little.  Cloth,  8vo.,  pp.  328.  London:  Isbister  &  Co. 
Philadelphia:  J.  B.  Lippincott,  1899.  Price  $3.00. 

In  the  fall  of  1898  Canon  Knox  Little  visited  South  Africa, 
and  was  enchanted  with  the  beauty  and  interested  in 
in  the  activities  of  a  new  and  strange  country.  He  was 
welcomed  in  his  double  capacity  of  cleric  and  scholar  by 
all  sorts  and  conditions  of  men,  was  an  honored  guest  of 
Cecil  Rhodes  and  saw  South  Africa  under  the  most  favor¬ 
able  circumstances.  His  book  is  written  with  enthu¬ 
siasm  yet  with  judgment,  and  the  criticisms  are  from  the 
point  of  view  of  the  statesman.  His  statements  regard¬ 
ing  the  work  of  our  missionaries  are  singularly  discrim¬ 
inating.  He  realizes  the  need  of  more  men  at  the  strate¬ 
gic  points,  and  his  plea  for  them  is  strong  and  convincing. 

Transvaal  as  a  Mission  Field,  The.  By  Canon  Farmer. 
S.  P.  G.  2s.  6d. 

Transvaal  Flag,  Natives  under  the.  By  Bovill,  Simp- 
kin,  Marshall  &  Co. 

What  has  been  said  of  other  sketches  is  true  of  these. 
They  are  of  value  to  those  who  wish  to  study  the  situation 
some  years  back  of  the  country  and  of  the  Missions  of 
the  Church  of  England.  The  account  of  the  rapid  growth 
and  changes  of  recent  days  must  be  sought  in  the  latest 
S.  P.  G.  magazines  and  reports. 

White  Man’s  Africa.  By  Poultney  Bigelow.  Cloth,  12 
mo.,  pp.  271.  New  York  and  London:  Harper  &  Brothers, 
1898. 

The  difference  between  the  point  of  view  of  a  statesman 
and  that  of  a  journalist  is  well  illustrated  by  the  perusal 
of  James  Bryce’s  Impressions  of  South  Africa  and  the 


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present  volume.  Mr.  Bigelow  had  a  single  eye  to  what 
would  make  acceptable  magazine  articles,  and  treats 
the  same  subject — Africa  south  of  the  Zanzibar — solely 
with  reference  to  that  end.  In  view  of  his  affiliations, 
sentimental  and  financial,  with  Germany  and  the  Ger¬ 
mans,  it  is  easy  to  see  that  the  stolid,  homespun  burgher¬ 
like  virtues  of  the  Boers  would  fill  him  with  respect  and 
admiration.  The  book  is  well  and  copiously  illustrated, 
and  is,  as  the  prospectus  of  a  magazine  might  well  de¬ 
clare,  “replete  with  fact  and  fancy.”  Mr.  Bigelow,  like 
Mr.  Bryce,  saw  his  South  Africa  under  favorable  condi¬ 
tions,  though  the  conditions  were  diametrically  opposed, 
Mr.  Bryce  being  a  distinguished  member  of  the  ruling 
race,  and  Mr.  Bigelow  representing  a  more  or  less  dis¬ 
creditable  connection,  from  over  seas  but  forcing  his 
way,  partly  by  his  own  personality,  partly  by  the  aid  of 
powerful  friends.  The  points  of  resemblance  and  of 
difference  might  be  still  further  indicated,  but  enough 
has  been  said  to  show  that  while  Mr.  Bryce’s  book  is 
immeasurably  superior  in  breadth  of  view,  Mr.  Bigelow’s 
book  has  still  something  to  make  it  useful,  especially  for 
the  reader  who  has  not  time  or  taste  for  what  is  more 
profound. 

Wastes  Reclaimed,  African.  The  Story  of  the  Lovedale 

Mission.  By  Robert  Young.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  268. 

London:  Dent  &  Co.,  1902.  4s.  6d. 

The  Lovedale  Mission  in  the  northeast  of  Cape  Colony 
is  well  known  to  all  students  of  missions.  Nowhere  else 
in  Africa — perhaps  nowhere  else  in  the  world — has  the 
training  of  natives  been  carried  out  on  so  large  and  suc¬ 
cessful  a  scale.  The  book  before  us  contains  an  account 
of  the  settlement  during  the  last  eighty  years — that  is, 
since  its  formation  by  the  Glasgow  Missionary  Society 
in  1823.  During  this  time  between  three  and  four  thou¬ 
sand  have  received  their  education  in  the  Lovedale  In¬ 
stitutions.  The  schools  contain  representatives  from 
almost  every  tribe  in  South  Africa  within  a  radius  of 
500  miles.  Among  the  trades  taught  to  the  boys  are 
carpentry,  wagon-making,  the  work  of  blacksmiths  and 


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masons,  brick-making,  basket-making,  poultry  farming, 
bee-keeping  and  shoe-making.  Four  other  institutions 
have  been  founded  in  South  or  Central  Africa  which  have 
been  planned  on  the  lines  of  Lovedale.  The  problem 
which  they  try  to  solve  is  of  vital  importance  in  view  of 
the  development  of  all  missionary  work  in  Africa. 

In  conclusion,  we  have  a  group  of  small  books,  none  of 
which  are  any  longer  of  any  particular  value,  simply 
because  it  is  ten  years  or  more  since  they  were  prepared, 
and  in  a  country  where  events  march  at  such  speed  as 
they  are  doing  in  Africa,  ten  years  is  enough  to  make  a 
book  hopelessly  behind  the  times. 

The  Story  of  South  Africa  by  W.  Basil  Worsfold  (London: 
Horace  Marshall)  stops  with  the  Jameson  Raid  and  1897. 
The  Bechuana  in  South  Africa  by  William  Crisp,  B.  D. 
(London:  S.  P.  C.  K.  1896)  is  a  very  simple  narrative  of 
missionary  life,  suitable  to  read  to  little  children.  Home 
Life  in  Africa,  also  written  for  children,  bears  the  date 
1868. 

Soudan,  The  Egyptian.  J.  Kelly  Giffen.  See  Egypt. 

Stanley,  Henry  M.  In  Darkest  Africa,  Through  the  Dark 
Continent.  See  Central  Africa. 

Stock,  Eugene.  History  of  the  Church  Missionary  Society. 
See  Church  Missionary  Society. 

Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign 
Parts,  Two  Hundred  Years  of  the,  1701-1901.  By  C.  F. 
Pascoe.  Based  on  a  Digest  of  its  Records.  Nearly  1 ,500  pp. , 
8  vo.  7s.  6d.  or  in  2  vols.  8s.  6d.  Illustrated. 

S.  P.  G.  Annual  Report. 

S.  P.  G.  The  Mission  Field.  The  Official  Organ  of  the  S.  P.  G. 
illustrated  monthly  per  annum,  by  post  2s.,  bound  volume  2s. 
5d. 

S.  P.  G.  The  King’s  Messengers.  The  S.  P.  G.  children’s 
monthly  magazine.  Per  annum  by  post  9d. 

S.  P.  G.  The  East  and  The  West.  A  Quarterly  Review.  120 
royal,  8  vo.,  pp.  4s.  per  annum  prepaid. 


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Taylor,  S.  E.  Price  of  Africa.  See  General. 

Through  my  Spectacles  in  Uganda.  Martin  J.  Hall.  See 
Uganda. 

Timbuctoo,  The  Mysterious.  Felix  Dubois.  See  West  Africa. 
Tucker,  Bishop  Eighteen  Years  in  Uganda  See  Uganda 
Two  Kings  of  Uganda.  R.  P.  Ashe.  See  Uganda. 


U 


UGANDA 

Buganda  at  Home,  The,  by  C.  W.  Hattersley.  227  pp.,  illus. 
London:  Religious  Tract  Society.  Price  5s. 

A  popular  and  very  readable  account  of  the  habits,  cus¬ 
toms,  and  recent  history  of  the  people  of  Uganda.  The 
book  contains  a  hundred  very  good  illustrations,  and  is 
apparently  issued  below  cost  price.  The  author,  who  has 
been  a  C.  M.  S.  missionary  in  Uganda  for  ten  years,  writes 
in  a  pleasant  style,  and  his  book  deserves  to  obtain  a  wide 
circulation.  It  is  not  primarily  concerned  with  mission¬ 
ary  work,  but  a  good  deal  of  information  is  supplied 
incidentally.  The  C.  M.  S.  Mission  to  Uganda  has  been 
from  the  first,  as  he  tells  us,  an  educational  one.  “Of 
its  60,000  members  the  numbers  who  cannot  read  can  be 
counted  only  by  the  dozen.”  One  chapter  is  devoted  to 
an  account  of  the  ravages  of  the  sleeping  disease,  and  of 
the  efforts  which  have  been  made  to  find  a  remedy  for  it. 
The  book  closes  with  an  earnest  appeal  for  further  vol¬ 
unteers  to  take  part  in  the  evangelization  of  the  Buganda. 
— The  East  and  the  West. 

Church  Missionary  Society  History.  Vol.  Ill  pp.  36,  94- 
112,  402-427, 454, 431-453,  531, 664,  694, 707, 735-737,  731- 
746,  788,  791,  800-818  to  year  1900.  For  later  information 
see  the  following: 

Church  Missionary  Society’s  Annual  Reports,  “Story  of 


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the  Year/’  and  “Missionary  Gleaner.”  See  Church  Mission¬ 
ary  Society. 

The  official  report  and  history  of  the  Mission  to  Uganda 

Dwarf  Land  and  Cannibal  Country,  In,  by  Albert  B.  Lloyd. 
Cloth,  8vo.  pp.  385.  New  York:  Charles  Scribner’s  Sons. 
1899. 

Mr.  Lloyd  has  enriched  our  missionary  literature  with 
two  books,  both  of  which  are  well  worth  reading.  He 
went  as  a  missionary  of  the  C.  M.  S.  to  Uganda  in  1894. 
While  he  was  there,  King  Mwanga  rebelled  against  the 
British  occupation  of  Uganda,  and  stirred  up  a  revolt 
among  the  Soudanese  troops.  The  author  was  one  of 
those  who  assisted  in  repressing  the  rebellion,  and  for  his 
gallantry  he  subsequently  received  a  decoration  from  the 
English  Government.  A  good  sportsman  and  an  en¬ 
thusiastic  photographer,  the  pages  of  this  book  are  em¬ 
bellished  literally  and  figuratively,  with  stories  of  big 
hunts  and  many  pictures  of  characteristic  African  scenes. 
Perhaps  two  of  the  greatest  significance  are  those  which 
face  each  other  on  pages  376  and  377.  One  shows  the 
old  caravan  way,  over  insecure  bridges  and  through 
morasses,  from  Leopoldville  to  the  coast.  The  other 
shows  the  new  railway.  In  addition  to  his  other  roles, 
Mr.  Lloyd  is  an  explorer.  When  the  time  of  his  first 
furlough  came  he  determined  to  strike  out  a  line  for  him¬ 
self  and  go  through  Belgian  territory  to  the  West  Coast. 
This  brought  him  to  the  Pygmy  Forest,  where  Stanley 
spent  so  much  time,  and  his  stories  of  the  “little  people” 
are  touching  in  the  extreme.  One  affecting  photograph  , 
is  of  Bishop  Tucker,  standing  by  a  pygmy  mother  and 
child.  The  book  makes  no  pretense  to  literary  merit, 
but  is  simply  the  truthful  narrative  of  the  life  of  an 
energetic,  earnest  young  missionary  in  Africa. 

East  African  Protectorate,  The,  by  Sir  Charles  Eliot,  K. 
C.  B.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  312.  London:  Edward  Arnold, 
1904.  Price  15s.  net. 

The  land  between  Lake  Victoria  and  the  Indian  Ocean, 
over  which  England  extends  her  protection,  is,  on  many 
accounts,  favorable  for  colonization  by  the  English.  Such 


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colonies,  if  established,  would  prove  most  beneficial  to  the 
natives,  and  help  immeasurably  in  uplifting,  civilizing  and 
Christianizing  them.  There  are  many  points  concerning 
which  would-be  colonists  would  like  information,  and 
this  book  is  a  serious  and  conscientious  attempt  to  give 
a  good  idea  of  what  life  there  might  be  made. 

It  is  a  far  cry  from  Mackay  of  Uganda  and  Bishop  Han- 
nington.  There  is  less  religious  enthusiasm,  less  poetry 
and  romance,  much,  very  much  more  of  statistics  and 
economics,  but  it  is  Uganda  up  to  date,  and  as  such,  very 
well  worth  the  reading. 

Eighteen  Years  in  Uganda  and  East  Africa,  by  the  Right 
Rev.  Alfred  R.  Tucker,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. ,  Bishop  of  Uganda 
2  vols.,  cloth,  8vo. ,  pp.  359  and  388.  Price,  $8.50.  New 
York:  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  1908. 

Like  Sir  Harry  Johnston’s  Liberia,  this  is  the  authoritative 
and  official  standard  for  Uganda.  It  is  many  years  since 
Miss  Mackay,  in  her  life  of  her  brother,  brought  to  readers 
of  Church  literature  all  over  the  world  their  first  knowledge 
of  this  wonderful  kingdom  on  the  borders  of  one  of  the 
great  African  lakes.  Writer  after  writer,  Pilkington, 
Ashe,  Harford-Battersby  and  a  score  of  others  have  told 
the  story  of  Uganda  with  special  reference  to  some  one 
phase  of  life.  Now  Bishop  Tucker,  with  a  statesmanlike 
sweep  of  view,  gives  us  the  Churchly,  the  philanthropic 
and  the  political  aspects,  and  illustrates  them  from  his 
own  sketches  and  studies.  The  book  is  too  expensive 
to  be  generally  bought,  but,  if  it  can  be  obtained  from  a 
public  library,  it  will  amply  repay  the  time  which  can  be 
given  it. 

Hannington,  James,  First  Bishop  of-Eastern  Equatorial 
Africa,  by  E.  C.  Dawson.  Cloth,  8vo.,  pp.  471.  New 
York:  A.  D.  F.  Randolph,  1887.  Price  3s.  6d. 

Hannington,  Last  Journals  of  Bishop,  by  E.  C.  Dawson. 
Cloth,  16  mo.,  pp.  239.  New  York:  A.  D.  F.  Randolph,  1888. 

Hannington,  Bishop,  C.  M.  P.  C.  Pamphlet  10c. 

It  is  just  twenty  years  since  the  American  edition  of  the 
Life  of  Bishop  Hannington  appeared,  yet  it  is  not  a  super¬ 
seded  book.  The  blood  of  the  martyrs  is  the  seed  of 


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the  Church,  and  one  can  never  understand  the  wonderful 
story  of  Uganda,  without  knowing  the  nature  of  the  man 
who  was  so  cruelly  murdered  by  the  people  he  went  to 
help.  His  friend  and  biographer  has  portrayed  his  char¬ 
acter  very  faithfully.  His  impetuosity,  his  fearlessness 
in  danger,  his  high  ideals,  his  resignation  to  death  in  the 
prime  of  life,  are  set  before  us  with  a  transparent  simpli¬ 
city  and  deep  affection.  “He  has  completed  the  circle 
of  that  great  ring  of  Christian  stations  of  which  the  signet 
stone  is  the  Victoria  Nyanza,  and  has  welded  them  to¬ 
gether  with  his  death.” 

The  Bishop’s  Journals  were  written  with  great  freshness 
and  point.  Many  pages  of  them  are  included  in  the  Life, 
and  in  the  Last  Journals,  which  appeared  the  following 
year.  An  account  is  given  of  a  Journey  to  Palestine  in 
1884  and  through  Masai  Land  and  Neloga  in  1885. 

Other  Girls,  by  E.  K.  Snell.  127  pp.  C.  M.  S.  Is.  Illus. 
A  description  of  the  life  of  some  representative  girls  in 
Uganda,  India  and  China,  The  book  begins  by  quoting 
the  following  advertisement  which  appears  in  a  London 
newspaper  in  1772: 

“To  be  sold,  a.  black  girl,  eleven  years  of  age,  who  is  ex¬ 
tremely  handy,  works  at  her  needle  tolerably,  speaks 
English  perfectly  well,  is  of  an  excellent  temper  and  willing 
disposition.  Inquire  of  Mr.  Owen,  at  the  Angel  Inn,  be¬ 
hind  St.  Clements  Church  in  the  Strand.”  From  The  East 
and  West. 

This  book  is  intended  especially  to  interest  young  people 
in  missions  and  is  of  the  same  class  as  the  two  earlier 
books,  Girls  and  Girls.  Boys  and  Boys.  C.  M.  S. 
Illus.  The  books  suited  for  reading  at  Junior  meetings 
are  only  in  part  about  Africa. 

Pilkington  of  Uganda  Harford-Battersby.  Pevell.  $1.50 

PlLKINGTON  OF  UGANDA.  10c.  C.  M.  P.  C. 

See  Uganda. 

Pygmy  Land,  On  the  Borders  of,  by  Ruth  H.  Fisher.  Cloth, 
12  mo.  pp.  215.  New  York:  Fleming  H.  Revell  Co.  Price, 
$1.25  net.  1905. 

Perhaps  no  part  of  Africa  has  been  more  fully  described 


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and  certainly  no  part  has  had  a  more  thrilling  story  than 
has  Uganda.  Those  of  us  who  have  read  of  Mackay  and 
Pilkington’s  work  in  the  early  years,  and  followed  its 
career  to  the  days  of  the  Protectorate  will  find  much  to 
interest  them  in  Mrs.  Fisher’s  book.  There  are  four 
kingdoms  included  in  the  Protectorate,  the  rulers  of  three 
of  them  being  baptized  Christians  and  earnestly  seeking 
Christianity  for  their  people.  The  fourth,  the  king  of 
Uganda,  is  only  a  boy,  but  he  is  under  good  influences, 
and  the  future  of  the  Church  in  Uganda  is  secure.  Toro, 
one  of  the  four  kingdoms,  was  the  scene  of  the  labors  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fisher.  It  is,  as  the  title  indicates,  on  the 
borders  of  Pygmy  Land,  the  country  to  the  south  being 
the  veritable  Dark  Forest  through  which  Stanley  made 
his  memorable  journey.*  The  book  is  delightfully  written 
— a  model  of  what  such  a  book  ought  to  be — full  of  in¬ 
formation  about  the  kingdoms  of  the  Protectorate,  to 
every  missionary  station  of  which  the  author  journeyed 
in  turn.  Not  less  interesting  is  her  account  of  the  pyg¬ 
mies.  The  first  pygmy  to  be  baptized  was  under  her 
care,  and  some  of  her  stories  are  pathetic.  We  com¬ 
mend  this  book  most  highly.  If  but  a  limited  number  of 
volumes  can  be  bought  for  a  mission  study  class  this 
ought  to  be  among  them. 

Toro,  Visits  to  the  Mountains  of  the  Moon.  Written  and 
illustrated  by  Bishop  Tucker  of  Uganda.  C.  M.  S.,  1899. 

A  flat  booklet  full  of  pictures  and  descriptions  of  wonder¬ 
fully  beautiful  mountain  scenery;  but  the  reader  must 
bear  in  mind  that  since  this  sketch  was  printed  the  polit¬ 
ical  and  missionary  situation  has  made  wonderful  changes. 

Tramps  round  the  Mountains  of  the  Moon  and  Through 
the  back  gate  of  the  Congo  State,  by  T.  B.  Johnson. 
316  pp.  Fisher  Union  Publishers.  Illustrated.  6s. 

The  author  worked  as  a  C.  M.  S.  missionary  for  five  years 
in  the  kingdom  of  Toro,  which  lies  to  the  west  of  Uganda. 
He  had  occasion  to  make  several  journeys  in  the  neigh¬ 
boring  districts.  The  longest  of  these  included  a  march 
through  part  of  the  pigmy  forest  and  a  corner  of  the 
Congo  Free  State  and  round  Mount  Ruwenzori.  Many 


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of  the  descriptions  which  he  gives  of  the  country  and 
peoples  are  very  graphic.  In  the  districts  in  which  mis¬ 
sionary  work  has  been  started  he  has  frequent  occasion 
to  point  the  contrast  between  the  present  and  past  con¬ 
ditions  of  the  inhabitants  and  to  emphasize  the  duty  of 
extending  missionary  effort. — The  East  and  the  West. 

Uganda  Protectorate,  The,  by  Sir  Harry  Johnston.  G.  C. 

M.  G.,  K.  C.  B.,  D.  Sc.  Cloth,  royal  4to.,  2  vols.,  pp.  1018. 

Price  £2,  2s.  London:  Hutchinson  &  Co.,  1904. 

The  territories  under  British  protection  in  East  Central 
Africa,  between  the  Congo  Free  State  and  the  Rift  valley, 
and  between  the  first  degree  of  south  latitude  and  the 
fifth  degree  of  north  latitude,  are  now  comprised  under 
the  one  generic  title  of  the  Uganda  protectorate,  and  the 
object  of  the  writer  of  this*  book  is  to  give  some  descrip¬ 
tion  of  the  physical  geography,  botany,  zoology,  anthro¬ 
pology,  languages  and  history  of  the  country.  It  seems 
as  if  these  two  sumptuous  volumes  covered  the  ground 
so  exhaustively  that  it  would  be  many  years  before  any 
attempt  would  be  made  to  supplement  them.  To  the 
student  of  Africa  in  any  of  its  numerous  aspects  the  book 
will  be  most  valuable,  helpful  and  inspiring. 

The  beautiful  illustrations,  colored  plates  and  maps  with 
which  it  is  crowded,  testify  to  the  scientific  thoroughness 
and  enthusiasm  with  which  this  monumental  work  has 
been  prepared.  It  is  a  book  to  think  over,  to  dream  over, 
to  consult  for  reference  on  every  conceivable  question 
relating  to  the  country. 

Two  maps  will  prove  of  especial  value  to  the  student  of 
missions — that  facing  page  222  of  the  first  volume,  show¬ 
ing  our  knowledge  of  the  equatorial  lakes  according  to 
different  travellers  at  different  periods,  beginning  with 
Ptolemy,  A.  D.  150  and  ending  with  the  surveys  of  1901, 
and  another  facing  page  276  of  the  same  volume,  showing 
the  prevailing  religions  and  forms  of  belief. 

The  wonderful  story  of  Uganda,  as  we  have  followed  it  in 
different  books,  is  again  told,  and  with  vigor,  distinction 
and  finish,  but  so  much  more  is  said  on  this  and  allied 
subjects,  that  the  book  is  in  a  class  by  itself.  The  size 


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of  the  volumes  and  their  price  may  prove  prohibitive  for 
most  mission  study  libraries,  but  if  they  can  be  afforded 
they  are  sure  to  prove  most  helpful.  They  give  a  broad 
view  of  a  most  interesting  country,  whose  past  history 
and  present  prospects  are  alike  worthy  close  and  extended 
study. 

Uganda,  The  Mission  to,  by  Sir  Gerald  H.  Portal.  Cloth, 
8vo.,  pp.  348.  London:  Edward  Arnold,  1894.  Price  21s. 
The  question  of  the  abandonment  of  Uganda  by  Great 
Britain  became  in  1893  a  great  political  question  in  Eng¬ 
land.  Many  thoughtful  men  protested  against  the  ex¬ 
tension  of  the  British  Empire  and  advocated  the  abandon¬ 
ment  of  the  position  which  Great  Britain  had  acquired 
in  the  heart  of  Africa.  To  the  missionaries  the  question 
was  rather  one  of  a  breach  of  faith  with  the  Buganda 
They  had  placed  themselves,  in  signing  the  treaty  of 
Captain  Lugard,  under  British  protection,  and  to  tear  up 
a  treaty  so  solemnly  entered  into  was  felt  to  be  dishonor¬ 
able.  Moreover,  the  French  party  in  the  country  were 
eagerly  waiting  for  an  opportunity  of  taking  the  place  of 
those  whose  position  in  the  country  had  hitherto  been 
paramount.  Sir  Gerald  Portal,  under  these  conditions, 
was  appointed  by  the  British  government  to  visit  Uganda, 
and  to  report  upon  the  advisability  of  their  retaining  or 
abandoning  it.  His  caravan  opened  up  a  new  line  of 
march,  which  is  described  at  length,  and  the  survey  of 
the  situation  is  most  manly,  temperate  and  just. 

Uganda  and  Its  People,  by  Brig.  Gen.  Lugard,  Governor  of 
Nigeria.  Cloth,  16  mo.  pp.  175.  New  York:  M.  F.  Mans¬ 
field  &  Co.  Price  $1.00.  1901. 

The  bravery,  diplomacy  and  skill  of  General  Lugard  is 
well  known  to  us  in  the  work  of  others.  This  very 
modest  volume  gives  a  capital  resume  of  the  first  occupa¬ 
tion  of  the  country — the  troubles  of  the  missionaries 
and  the  general  situation  up  to  the  Autumn  of  1899.  Sir 
Charles  Eliot’s  much  larger  work,  The  East  African  Pro¬ 
tectorate,  continues  the  story  and  covers  much  of  the  same 
ground,  but  in  a  very  compact  form  is  here  presented  all 
the  stirring  events  of  the  earlier  days. 


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Uganda,  Mackay  of,  by  His  Sister.  Cloth,  12  mo.,pp.  480. 
London:  A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Co.,  1892.  Trice  3s.  6d. 

Uganda,  Chronicles  of,  by  R.  P.  Ashe.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp. 
451.  London:  Hodder  &  Stoughton,  1894.  Price  7s.  6d. 

Uganda,  Pilkington  of,  by  C.  F.  Harford  Battersby.  Cloth, 
12  mo.,  pp.  346.  London:  Marshall  Brothers.  New  York: 
Revell  Co.,  1898.  Price  $1.50. 

Uganda,  Two  Kings  of,  by  R.  P.  Ashe.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp. 
291.  London :  Sampson  Low,  Marshall,  Searle  &  Rivington, 
1888.  2s.  6d. 

Uganda,  The  Wonderful  Story  of,  by  the  Rev.  J.  D.  Mul¬ 
lins,  M.  A.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  208.  London:  Church  Mis¬ 
sionary  Society. 

Uganda,  Through  My  Spectacles  in,  by  the  Rev.  Martin  J. 
Hall,  B.  A.  Pasteboard,  8 vo.,  pp.  104.  London:  C.  M. 
Society. 

In  varying  ways,  these  books  tell  the  story  of  the  begin¬ 
nings  of  Missionary  interest  in  Uganda,  the  special  work  of 
Mackay,  the  troubles  with  Mtesa  and  Mwanga,  the  “two 
kings,”  the  work  of  Pilkington,  Ashe  and  others,  and  the 
terrible  story  of  the  martyrs.  They  all  concern  them¬ 
selves  with  the  early  days  of  Uganda  Christianity.  Books 
dealing  with  the  subject  in  more  recent  years  are  noticed 
separately.  No  part  of  Africa  has  been  the  subject  of 
more  interest  than  Uganda,  both  from  the  political  and 
religious  points  of  view,  and  the  books  concerning  the 
country  are  very  numerous  and  for  the  most  part  of  great 
value.  In  The  Wonderful  Story  of  Uganda  there  is  a 
touching  tale  of  an  African  convert,  Ham  MuKasu,  told 
by  himself,  and  Through  my  Spectacles  in  Uganda  is 
especially  interesting  to  children  and  equally  so  to  older 
people. 

Uganda  and  Its  Peoples,  by  J.  F.  Cunningham.  Cloth, 
crown  4to.,  pp.  370.  London:  Hutchinson  &  Co.,  1905. 
Price  24s. 

The  Uganda  Protectorate  includes  no  less  than  nineteen 
races  and  tribes,  differentiated  from  one  another  by  racial 
peculiarities  and  by  dissimilar  customs  and  practices. 
Mr.  Cunningham  assisted  Sir  Harry  Johnston  in  the 


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ethnological  part  of  his  work,  but  so  valuable  did  the 
latter  consider  the  result  of  his  researches,  that  he  advised 
the  publication  of  them  in  a  separate  book,  which  is, 
therefore,  an  anthropological  supplement  to  The  Uganda 
Protectorate.  The  keynote  to  the  volume  is  to  be  found 
in  these  words  signed  by  the  author  and  standing  on  a 
page  by  themselves:  “Anyone  can  rule  a  country  who 
has  a  sufficient  force  at  his  disposal,  but  he  alone  who 
understands  the  people,  their  customs,  manners  and 
ambitions,  can  govern  them  successfully.” 

It  is  to  the  would-be  civil  servants  of  the  Uganda  Pro¬ 
tectorate,  therefore,  that  the  book  makes  its  appeal.  All 
possible  information  about  the  peoples  of  that  stupendous 
country  is  of  the  utmost  value  to  those  young  English¬ 
men  who  are  shaping  their  studies  with  direct  reference 
to  a  livelihood  there.  The  book  is  profusely  and  beau¬ 
tifully  illustrated,  and  is  not  without  interest,  but  it  pre¬ 
supposes  special  reasons  for  special  inquiry  in  a  field 
which  has  no  particular  attraction  for  the  general  reader. 

Uganda  to  Khartoum,  by  Albert  B.  Lloyd.  Cloth,  8vo.,  pp. 

308.  New  York:  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  1906. 

For  ten  years  Mr.  Lloyd  has  labored  as  a  missionary  in 
the  western  part  of  the  Uganda  Protectorate.  In  that 
time  he  has  taken  two  furloughs.  The  fruit  of  the  first 
furlough  was  In  Dwarf  Land  and  Cannibal  Country,  and 
the  present  volume  is  the  outcome  of  his  second  leave  of 
absence.  The  most  interesting  part  of  the  book  is  the 
account  of  the  mission  to  the  Acholis,  a  remote  tribe 
dwelling  to  the  northeast  of  Albert  Nyanza,  on  the  eastern 
bank  of  the  White  Nile.  It  was  one  of  the  earliest,  per¬ 
haps  the  very  earliest,  mission  to  these  people,  and  he 
found  them  most  interesting,  ready  and  anxious  to  be 
taught,  and  very  hospitable  to  missionaries.  When  the 
time  came  for  him  to  leave  the  country  he  sailed  north  to 
Khartoum  and  there  took  the  steamer  home.  Now  that 
we  are  watching  with  so  much  interest  the  extension  of 
the  work  of  the  C.  M.  S.  into  the  Soudan,  Mr.  Lloyd’s 
book  is  especially  timely.  The  labors  of  Mackay  and 
Bishop  Hannington  belong  to  a  past  generation,  and  while 


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they  laid  the  foundations,  the  goodly  superstructure  the 
later  missionaries  have  reared  is  greater  than  they  would 
have  deemed  possible.  Uganda  proper  is  hardly  more 
than  a  sixth  of  the  Uganda  Protectorate,  and  in  the  last 
twenty  years  two  hundred  Christians  have  became  sixty 
thousand;  in  place  of  one  Church  there  are  now  two 
thousand  and  a  Cathedral  holding  five  thousand  people. 
Forty  two-thousand  children  are  under  instruction  in  the 
schools,  and  all  this  work  is  supported  by  the  natives 
themselves.  To  make  the  work  in  Uganda  an  ideal  for 
the  work  in  the  other  parts  of  the  Protectorate  is  the  ob¬ 
ject  of  such  men  as  Mr.  Lloyd  and  his  fellow’  missionaries. 

Universities’  Mission  to  Central  Africa.  See  East  Central 
Africa. 


V 

Vincent,  F.,  Actual  Africa.  See  General. 


W 


WEST  AFRICA 

C.  M.  S.  History.  Vol.  1,  pp.  24-25,  45,  84-86,  92-95,  107 
125,  173-181,  264,  333-337,  346.  Fourah  Bay  College  375, 
449-462.  Vol.  II,  pp.  99-123,  427-449.  Vol.  Ill,  pp.  73-83, 
330,  361,  375-401.  Diocese  of  West  Equat.  Africa,  398, 
725,  721-731,  786-787,  802,  also  chapters  V,  IX,  XIII, 
XIV,  XXIII,  XXIX,  XXXIX,  LV,  LVI,  LVII,  LXXIII, 
LXXXIX,  CIII  to  1900  and  for  later  information  the 
“Story  of  the  Year”.  “The  Gleaner/’  etc.  See  Church 
Missionary  Society. 

S.  P.  G.  Two  Hundred  Years,  pp.  254-268  up  to  1901  and 
later. 


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S.  P.  G.  Report.  Mission  Field,  etc.  See  S.  P.  G. 

The  above  are  the  official  histories  and  reports  of  the  two 
Societies  which  have  the  charge  of  all  the  Church  of  Eng¬ 
land  Missions  on  the  West  Coast.  Many  details  and 
narratives  of  interest  will  be  found  in  their  pages. 

Africa’s  Forest  and  Jungle,  In.  By  R.  H.  Stone.  Cloth, 
16  mo.,  pp.  282.  New  York:  Fleming  H.  Revell  Co.,  1899. 
It  is  barely  possible  that  readers  who  are  particularly 
interested  in  the  Yoruba  Country  of  West  Central  Africa 
may  learn  something  from  this  book,  which  is  the  work 
of  a  returned  missionary,  presumably  a  Baptist.  But  the 
omission  of  all  reference  to  evangelistic  work,  except  an 
occasional  mention  of  a  prayer  or  a  convert,  and  the  long 
winded  descriptions  of  the  fauna  of  the  country,  and 
careful  accounts  of  the  causes  and  results  of  tribal  wars, 
make  it  difficult  to  tell  what  he  did  with  his  time,  unless 
it  was  to  travel,  to  hunt  and  to  fight.  Dates  are  also 
omitted — one  would  almost  say  intentionally,  if  the 
poverty  of  the  literary  style  displayed  did  not  account  for 
this  and  for  many  other  lapses.  At  all  events  we  have  the 
author’s  word  that  all  the  incidents  narrated  occurred 
some  years  ago,  and  the  Yoruba  Country,  like  all  other 
parts  of  Africa,  is  greatly  changed  since  the  author’s  day. 

Calabar  and  Its  Mission.  By  the  Rev.  Hugh  Goldie.  Cloth, 
16  mo.,  pp.  392.  Edinburgh  and  London:  Oliphant,  An¬ 
derson  &  Ferrier,  1901.  Price  5s. 

At  the  Bight  of  Biafra,  on  the  Gulf  of  Guinea,  where  the 
coast  of  Africa  bends  to  the  south,  is  located  the  town  of 
Old  Calabar,  where  the  Scottish  Presbyterian  Mission¬ 
ary  Society  has  since  1841  been  working.  For  many 
years  the  Rev.  Hugh  Goldie  was  at  the  head  of  the  mission 
and  in  1890  he  wrote  its  history.  Now  a  new  edition 
with  additional  chapters  has  been  prepared  by  the  Rev. 
John  Taylor  Dean,  which  brings  the  book  up  to  date. 
It  is  a  record  of  the  usual  trials  and  encouragements,  of 
the  difficulties  and  dangers,  defeats  and  victories  of  the 
little  band  of  consecrated  men  and  women  who  have  been 
working  for  so  many  years  to  enlighten  and  Christianize 
the  African  native. 


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Calabar  Mission,  The  Story  of  the.  Written  for  children. 
Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  40.  By  Jessie  F.  Hogg,  late  of  Old  Cala¬ 
bar.  Edinburgh  &  London :  Oliphant,  Anderson  and  Ferrier. 
1902.  Price  6d. 

The  Calabar  Mission  was  the  outgrowth  of  the  desire 
which  the  Negroes  of  Jamaica  felt  for  the  evangelization 
of  their  friends  in  Africa.  The  Scottish  Presbyterian 
Society  has  been  interested  in  it  from  the  first,  and  the 
men  who  have  had  the  direction  of  its  affairs  have  been 
of  unusual  judgment  and  tact.  The  work  has  been  sin¬ 
gularly  blessed,  both  in  material  prosperity  and  in  the 
spiritual  quality  of  its  converts.  The  author  tells  its 
story  in  a  way  calculated  to  interest  children,  giving  an 
insight  into  the  life  of  a  West  African  village,  describing 
the  native  manners,  customs  and  superstitions  and  giving 
an  account  of  the  mission  work,  past  and  present. 

Every  Day  Life  Among  the  Head  Hunters.  By  Dorothy 
Cator.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  212.  New  York  and  Bombay: 
Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  1905.  Price  $1.75. 

The  first  part  of  Mrs.  Cator’s  book  is  given  up  to  a  de¬ 
scription  of  her  life  in  Borneo.  Her  husband  was  a  Gov¬ 
ernment  official,  so  popular  with  the  natives  that  she 
had  unusual  opportunities  of  seeing  their  everyday  life, 
and  she  describes  it  with  much  freshness.  The  second 
part,  entitled  Other  Experiences,  describes  phases  of  life 
on  the  West  Coast.  The  writer  speaks  of  missionaries 
and  their  work  in  a  curiously  aloof  way,  as  if  what  they 
did  was  a  matter  of  little  interest — a  mere  incident  in  the 
life.  The  illustrations  are  good  and  plentiful,  and  the 
narrative  gives  excellent  pictures  of  native  habits  and 
customs. 

Fetishism  in  West  Africa.  By  Robert  Hamil  Nassau,  M. 
D.,  S.  T.  D.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  386.  New  York:  Charles 
Scribner’s  Sons,  1904.  Price  $2.50  net. 

The  Rev.  Wm.  Nassau  was  for  forty  years  a  missionary 
in  the  Gabun  district  of  the  French  Congo.  His  very 
exhaustive  studies  of  Fetish  enabled  him  to  be  of  great 
service  to  Miss  Kingsley  in  her  chapters  on  Fetish  in 
Travels  in  West  Africa,  and  she  gratefully  acknowledges 


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53 

her  indebtedness.  On  his  third  furlough  home  in  1893  he 
wrote  an  essay  on  Bantu  Theology,  and  this,  enriched  by 
ten  years  more  of  travel,  study  and  close  observation  of 
native  African  tribes,  was  the  nucleus  of  the  present 
volume. 

In  all  probability  this  study  of  the  religions  of  African 
natives  has  been  so  thorough  that  his  book  will  remain 
the  standard  for  many  years.  To  every  traveller  or  mis¬ 
sionary  or  writer  is  not  given  forty  years  to  make  a  study 
of  his  subject.  Here  are  the  facts,  vouched  for  by  his 
own  observation  and  investigation.  On  these  facts  he 
has  built  his  own  system  of  philosophy — feeble  and  fal¬ 
tering  at  times — sound  and  confident  at  others. 

Let  us  hear  his  conclusion  of  the  whole  matter.  He 
believes  that  it  is  possible  for  human  beings  to  make  pacts 
with  the  Devil,  and  share  with  him  in  some  of  his  super¬ 
natural  power  as  prince  of  the  power  of  darkness  and  god 
of  this  world.  He  believes  it  is  possible  that  fetish  doctors 
have  been  temporarily  entered  into  by  satanic  power,  and 
that  the  missionary  in  his  contest  with  heathenism,  has 
literally  to  fight  with  the  devil.  Mr.  Nassau  knows  of 
what  he  speaks.  Those  of  us  in  a  more  favored  land  it 
behooves  to  learn,  to  listen  and  to  wait. 

Fifty  Years  in  Western  Africa.  By  A.  H.  Barrow,  M.  A. 

Cloth,  16  mo.,pp.  151.  London:  S.  P.  C.  K.,  1900.  Price  2s. 
There  is  a  real  sadness  in  this  little  story  of  a  “venture 
of  faith.’'  In  1851  the  West  Indian  Church  inaugurated 
this  missionary  enterprise  on  the  Rio  Pongo  of  the  West 
Coast  of  Africa,  north  of  Sierra  Leone.  It  met  with  a 
reasonable  degree  of  success,  and  high  hopes  were  cher¬ 
ished  for  a  time,  but  as  the  political  situation  changed 
and  the  French  gained  increased  dominion,  it  became 
more  and  more  difficult  to  maintain  the  ground  so  pain¬ 
fully  gained,  and  further  progress  became  out  of  the 
question.  Its  story  differs  in  few  and  unimportant  par¬ 
ticulars  from  that  of  other  missionary  stations  in  West 
Africa,  but  as  a  record  of  a  truly  fraternal  spirit  on  the 
part  of  the  West  Indians  to  keep  their  kinsfolk  in  Africa, 
the  story  is  worthy  a  sympathetic  and  respectful  hearing. 


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This  mission  is  largely  sustained  financially  by  grants 
from  the  S.  P.  G.  and  the  S.  P.  C.  K.  In  spite  of  dis¬ 
couragement  two  important  missionary  centres,  reaching 
out  to  many  smaller  towns,  have  been  maintained  by  S. 
P.  G.  missionaries. 

Gold  Coast  Past  and  Present,  The.  By  George  Macdonald. 
Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  335.  London:  Longmans  Green  &  Co., 
1898.  Price  $2.50. 

The  Gold  Coast  is  a  strip  of  land  bordering  on  the  Gulf 
of  Guinea.  The  book  is  an  account  of  the  natural  re¬ 
sources,  vegetable  and  mineral,  of  that  part  of  Africa,  and 
gives  some  description  of  the  characteristics  of  the  Kru- 
boys,  as  the  natives  are  called.  But  it  is  of  no  partic- 
lar  value  as  a  book  for  mission  study. 

The  Gold  Coast  is  of  special  interest  to  Churchmen  as  the 
S .  P.  G.  opened  a  new  mission  there  in  1907  which  was 
considerably  reinforced  in  1908,  and  arrangements  are  in 
progress  to  create  a  fourth  diocese  on  the  West  Coast  under 
the  Church  of  England  with  Bishop  Hamlyn  ( consecrated 
in  1905  to  be  an  assistant  to  Bishop  Tugwell  of  Western 
Equatorial  A  frica)  as  first  Bishop  of  the  Gold  Coast. 

Gold  Coast,  Nine  Years  on  the.  By  the  Rev.  Dennis 
Kemp.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  343.  New  York:  The  Mac¬ 
millan  Co.,  1898.  Price  $5.00. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Kemp  was  a  very  faithful  missionary  of 
the  Presbyterian  denomination,  and  has  labored  most 
assiduously  in  his  field.  He  has  taken  great  pains  to 
gather  facts  which  will  interest  the  reader,  and  his  book 
contains  much  that  will  give  one  a  clear  account  of  the 
conditions  under  which  missionary  work  in  West  Africa 
is  being  done.  It  is  an  exceptionally  good  book  for  Mis¬ 
sion  Study  classes. 

Hausa  Land.  By  Charles  Henry  Robinson.  Cloth,  12  mo., 
pp.  279.  London:  Sampson  Low  Marston  &  Co.,  1896. 
Price  2s.  fid. 

Hausa  Land,  which  is  the  country  lying  near  the  head 
waters  of  the  Niger,  is  said  by  travellers  to  be  a  region 
of  wonderful  fertility.  Its  natives  are  of  unusually  fine 
physique  and  are  intellectually  much  superior  to  the 


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other  native  tribes  of  the  interior.  But  they  are  very 
ferocious,  and  it  has  been  dangerous  to  travel  in  their 
country.  Mohammedan  missionaries  have  worked  among 
them  for  years,  and  they  are  fierce  and  bigoted  in  their 
religious  belief.  The  author  thinks  that  the  time  has  not 
yet  come  for  any  effective  work  among  them. 

Liberia.  By  Sir  Harry  Johnston,  G.  C.  M.  G.,  K.  C.  B., 
D.  Sc.  With  an  appendix  on  the  flora  of  Liberia  by 
De  Otto  Stapf,  F.  L.  S.  Cloth,  royal  4to.,  pp.  1183.  Price 
£2,  2s.  London:  Hutchinson  &  Co.,  1906. 

“The  Republic  of  Liberia  is  an  attempt  and  an  atone¬ 
ment”  says  the  author  in  the  very  opening  of  his  preface. 
“It  is  an  attempt  to  establish  a  civilized  Negro  state  in 
the  West  African  forest,  and  a  somewhat  paltry  atone¬ 
ment,  which  has  been  made  by  Britain  and  her  daughter 
in  America  for  the  wrong  doing  of  the  slave  trade.  We 
have  allowed  them  to  take — at  least  we  have  given  them, 
a  little  garden  to  show  what  their  husbandry  can  do.  To 
this  careless  gift  we  should  at  least  add  time.  Let  us 
claim  for  Liberia  at  least  another  half  century  of  trial 
before  the  world  in  congress  pronounces  decisively  upon 
the  success  or  failure  of  the  experiment.” 

These  extracts  from  the  preface  show  the  sympathetic 
spirit  in  which  the  book  was  conceived  and  written.  The 
author  thinks  it  is  wrong  to  expect  twenty  or  twenty- 
five  thousand  Americanized  Negroes  to  effect  in  a  hundred 
years  as  much  as  France  and  England  could  do  in  other 
portions  of  Negro  Africa  with  unlimited  resources  in 
arms,  money  and  men,  during  the  same  period  of  time. 

The  area  of  the  country  is  trivial— -but  43,000  square 
miles,  but  within  these  limits  are  locked  up,  the  author 
believes,  some  of  the  great  undiscovered  secrets  of 
Africa,  besides  an  enormous  wealth  of  vegetable  prod¬ 
ucts  and  perhaps  some  surprises  in  minerals.  Here, 
also,  is  being  tried  the  most  serious  and  cautious  ex¬ 
periment  in  Negro  self-government. 

There  are  only  12,000  Americo-Liberians,  as  they  are 
called,  in  the  entire  country,  and  these  inherit  in  many 
cases  the  enfeebled  constitutions  of  their  parents  and 


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grandparents,  the  first  emigrants.  “Many  of  these 
were  broken-down  people,  worn-out  slaves,  dissatisfied, 
sickly  mulattoes  or  octoroons/’  The  author  has  not  too 
high  an  opinion  of  these  Americo-Liberians.  He  says 
“Their  ideals  are  pitifully  Anglo  Saxon,”  and  he  objects 
to  their  study  of  the  Old  Testament  and  the  reverence 
in  which  they  hold  the  Fourth  Commandment!  But  he 
speaks  favorably  of  the  work  all  the  missionaries  are 
doing,  and  in  chapter  29  on  Social  Life  gives  us  a  vivid 
idea  of  the  tremendous  disadvantages  and  difficulties 
under  which  they  work. 

Our  Church  began  its  work  there  in  1830.  It  is  divided 
into  four  districts — Mesurado,  Basa,  Sino  and  Cape 
Palmas,  and  we  have  eighteen  clergy,  sixty-nine  catechists 
and  teachers,  and  instruct  over  3,000  pupils.  It  gives 
us  the  credit  of  being  very  active  in  missionary  work 
among  the  natives,  but  has  very  little  to  say  about 
distinctively  missionary  matters. 

The  flora  and  fauna,  much  of  which  is  very  distinct  from 
other  parts  of  Africa,  and  the  chapters  on  anthropology 
are  considered  in  the  second  volume,  and  the  last  hundred 
pages  are  taken  up  with  valuable  vocabularies. 

Like  “The  Uganda  Protectorate”  the  book  is  too  bulky 
and  expensive  for  general  use,  but  is  most  valuable  for 
reference. 

Miracle  of  African  Missions,  A.  By  John  Bell.  Cloth, 

16  mo.,  pp.  139.  New  York:  Fleming  Revel  &  Co.,  1905. 

Price  .60  net. 

This  is  the  story  of  the  conversion  of  Matulo,  a  heathen 
of  the  Congo,  under  the  teaching  of  a  Baptist  missionary. 
It  is  written  as  nearly  as  possible  from  his  own  standpoint, 
and  gives  a  clear  idea  of  the  early  life  of  an  African  native. 
His  home,  his  parents,  his  hearing  of  the  Gospel,  his 
struggles  against  it,  the  opposition  of  his  family,  his 
persecution,  his  trial  for  murder,  his  release  and  his  hon¬ 
ored,  respected  and  happy  last  years  are  described  with 
touching  simplicity. 


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Nigeria:  Our  Latest  Protectorate.  By  Charles  Henry 
Robinson.  Cloth,  16  mo.,  pp.  223.  London:  Horace 
Marshall  &  Son,  1900.  Price  5s. 

A  book  entitled  Hausa  Land,  which  was  published  in  1896, 
gave  to  many  readers  their  first  knowledge  of  a  great 
country  at  the  head-waters  of  the  Niger  River.  Its 
natives  were  superior,  both  in  physique  and  mentality, 
to  the  tribes  in  any  other  part  of  Africa,  but  they  were 
so  ferocious  and  so  completely  under  Mohammedan  control 
that  Hausa  Land  was  deemed  unsafe  for  missionary 
enterprise.  But  in  1898  the  treaty  was  signed  which 
brought  this  enormous  territory  into  the  British  Empire, 
and  as  Nigeria  we  hear  much,  and  are  destined  to  hear 
more,  of  what  we  used  to  know  as  Hausa  Land. 

The  author  of  that  book,  and  of  the  one  we  are  now  con¬ 
sidering,  is  the  lecturer  in  Hausa  in  the  University  of 
Cambridge  and  his  book  is  most  interesting  and  valuable. 
Chapter  VIII  on  Missionary  Enterprise  in  Nigeria  is 
especially  noteworthy.  The  English  missionary  maga¬ 
zines  have  given  us  later  news  of  the  missionary  move¬ 
ment,  but  the  book  presents  the  entire  situation  and  will 
enable  readers  to  follow  the  reports  with  fuller  under¬ 
standing  and  a  more  vivid  interest. 

Nigeria,  A  Resident’s  Wife  in.  By  Constance  Larymore. 
Cloth,  8  vo.,  pp.  301.  London:  George  Routledge  &  Son. 
New  York:  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  1908. 

It  is  not  many  years  since  Hausa  Land,  as  the  southern 
portion  of  the  Soudan,  lying  at  the  head  waters  of  the 
Niger  river,  was  called,  was  a  closed  territory  to  missionary 
and  explorer  alike.  Its  inhabitants  were  fierce  and  war¬ 
like  and  the  most  bigoted  of  Mohammedans.  But  now 
all  this  is  changed.  The  country  is  under  British  rule, 
and  is  becoming  daily  more  ordered  and  civilized.  It  is 
now  divided,  for  administrative  purposes,  into  residences, 
which  consist  of  the  towns  and  villages  in  a  given  area, 
and  to  these  residences  the  occupants  feel  it  is  safe  to 
bring  their  wives  and  families.  Mrs.  Larymore,  who  had 
lived  for  years  in  India,  went  to  Africa  in  1902.  Like 
a  wise  woman  she  sought  her  pleasure  in  her  surroundings. 


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She  gardened,  she  planted  trees,  she  drove,  she  shot,  she 
raised  poultry,  she  gathered  a  herd  of  cows  and  made 
butter,  she  collected  butterflies,  she  tamed  all  sorts  of 
native  animals  for  pets,  she  studied  the  symbolism  of 
Hausa  decoration  and  utilized  it  in  her  very  remarkable 
embroidery,  and  last  of  all  she  has  written  a  charming 
book  on  her  life  in  Nigeria.  Such  a  woman  would  find 
happiness  and  bestow  it,  wherever  her  lot  was  cast,  and 
although  there  is  no  directly  religious  word  in  her  story, 
it  is  a  most  valuable  book  for  a  missionary  library,  not 
alone  for  its  information,  but  because  of  the  loving,  kindly 
nature  of  the  philanthropy  which  shines  so  clearly  in  its 
pages. 

Nigeria,  The  White  Man  in.  By  George  Douglas  Hazzle- 
dine.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  226.  London:  Edward  Arnold, 
1904.  Price  $3.50. 

The  map  of  Africa  has  been  so  changed  by  the  acqui¬ 
sition  by  foreign  nations  of  vast  extents  of  territory  that 
it  is  only  to  be  expected  that  the  nomenclature  should 
also  have  been  changed,  and  that  we  should  be  obliged 
to  call  countries  by  totally  different  names.  What  we 
used  to  call  Hausa  Land  is  now  Northern  Nigeria,  bounded 
on  its  east,  west  and  south  by  the  Niger  and  the  Benue 
rivers.  We  used  to  think  of  Hausa  Land  as  a  purely 
Mohammedan  state,  where  missionaries  could  not  safely 
work,  and  where  the  people,  of  an  unusual  degree  of 
mental  capacity  and  natural  physique,  were  also  most 
savage  and  barbarous.  British  rule  has  changed  all  this. 
English  officials  are  located  at  various  points,  mission¬ 
aries  can  teach  and  preach  in  safety,  and  a  great  deal  of 
interesting  information  regarding  what  has  practically 
been  an  unknown  land  is  being  printed  in  magazines  and 
books  of  the  day. 

Mr.  Hazzledine  has  given  us  a  very  pithy,  pointed  and 
picturesque  account  of  what  the  white  man  may  expect 
if  he  goes  in  an  official  capacity  to  Nigeria.  He  tells 
him  what  to  take  in  the  way  of  outfit,  what  to  do  to  guard 
against  climatic  troubles,  how  to  get  along  with  the  native, 
explains  the  attitude  of  England,  and  ends  with  some 


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excellent  chapters  on  Fetish  and  Ju  Ju.  The  book  is 
full  of  color  and  charm. 

Niger  Country,  In  the.  By  Harold  Bindloss.  Cloth,  12 
mo.,pp.  336.  Price  12s.  6d.  London:  William  Blackwood 
&  Sons,  1898. 

Perhaps  no  recent  book  on  Africa  contains  more  graphic 
description  of  the  conditions  under  which  men  carry  on 
their  work  in  that  country  than  does  this.  It  is  to  be 
hoped  that  conditions  have  changed  in  the  eight  years 
since  it  was  written,  for  it  paints  a  picture  so  lurid  and 
dreadful  that  it  would  seem  to  have  been  written  as  a 
deterrent  to  any  one  who  was  thinking  of  seeking  that 
country  either  as  missionary,  trader  or  official.  The 
book  holds  one  by  its  force  and  sincerity,  but  one  reads 
it  with  a  sinking  heart.  Although  the  author  says  that 
he  thinks  the  work  is  great  and  well  worth  the  doing, 
there  are  two  chapters,  the  fourth  and  the  twenty-sec¬ 
ond,  so  brutally  plain  spoken  that  one  wonders  what  his 
real  opinion  is.  It  is  an  intensely  interesting  book  but 
absolutely  unsuitable  for  a  mission  study  class. 

Niger  to  the  Nile,  From  the.  By  Boyd  Alexander.  2 
vols.,  Cloth,  8  vo.,  pp.  358  and  420.  London:  Edward 
Arnold,  1907. 

It  is  a  sad  and  striking  commentary  on  the  work  of  African 
exploration  that  a  well  equipped  exploring  party  of  four 
men,  soldiers  and  scientists  by  profession,  with  acquain¬ 
tance  with  the  country,  abundant  supplies,  and  knowl¬ 
edge  of  medicine  should  lose  half  its  numbers  in  little 
more  than  a  year.  Boyd  Alexander,  of  the  English  rifle 
brigade,  his  brother  Claud,  Captain  Gosling  and  Mr. 
Talbot,  with  their  personal  servants,  many  native  attend¬ 
ants  and  a  luxurious  equipment,  went  across  Africa 
from  the  head  waters  of  the  Niger  to  the  head  waters  of 
the  Nile,  on  foot  and  with  carriers.  The  four  men  rep¬ 
resented  as  many  interests.  Ornithology,  ethnology, 
photography  and  geography  were  the  chief  ends  of  their 
trips,  and  there  were  many  interesting  side  issues.  But 
the  deaths  of  Claud  Alexander  and  Captaffi  Gosling  put 
an  end  to  their  scientific  investigations,  and  coming  home 


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with  a  scattered  array  of  facts,  photographs  and  impres¬ 
sions,  Mr.  Boyd  Alexander  has  prepared  this  valuable 
book — a  monument  to  his  'dost  comrades.”  No  one  on 
reading  it  will  wonder  any  longer  that  Africa  is  a  difficult 
missionary  field.  The  climate  of  “the  land  the  rivers 
have  spoiled”,  its  slave  trading,  its  cannibalism  and 
other  terrible  evils,  and  the  low  mentality  of  its  people, 
render  it  the  most  difficult  of  all  countries  to  enlighten. 
Great  honor  is  due  to  those  who  are  so  faithfully  working 
in  so  benighted  a  land. 

Sierra  Leone,  Seven  Years  in.  By  Arthur  T.  Pierson.  D. 
D.  Cloth,  16  mo.,  pp.  214.  New  York:  Fleming  H.  Revell, 
1897.  Price  3s.  6d. 

In  this  volume  Dr.  Pierson  gives  an  account  of  the  work 
of  William  A.  B.  Johnson,  Missionary  of  the  Church 
Missionary  Society  from  1816  to  1823  in  Regents  Town, 
Sierra  Leone.  He  presents  a  lively  picture  of  the  condi¬ 
tion  of  the  natives  in  the  first  years  of  the  last  century, 
and  describes  the  singularly  devoted  life  of  this,  their 
first  missionary.  The  chief  interest  of  the  book  consists 
in  its  description  of  methods,  foreign  indeed  to  our  tradi¬ 
tions  of  to-day,  but  apparently  efficacious  at  the  time. 
The  same  Spirit  operates,  but  the  channels  are  of  wide 
diversity. 

Sherbro  and  Its  Hinterland,  The.  By  T.  J.  Aldridge,  F. 
R.  G.  S.  Cloth,  8  vo.,  pp.  343.  London:  Macmillan  & 
Co.,  1891.  Price  $6.00. 

The  author,  who  was  District  Commissioner  for  the  West 
Coast  of  Africa,  has  prepared  a  most  interesting  book 
in  so  careful  and  thorough  a  manner  that  one  can  feel 
it  to  be  a  perfectly  just  picture  of  the  condition  of  the 
people  on  the  Guinea  coast.  He  goes  most  exhaustively 
into  the  study  of  the  condition  of  the  natives  both  phys¬ 
ical,  mental  and  moral,  and  in  pursuance  of  this  study 
has  given  several  chapters  to  a  consideration  of  their 
food,  the  indigenous  products  and  the  possibility  of  their 
economic  development.  The  chapters  on  the  secret 
societies,  the  Leopard,  the  Poro,  the  Bunda  and  others, 
are  full  of  interest  and  of  great  value  to  those  who  wish 


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to  realize  to  what  extent  our  missionaries  are  exposed 
to  danger,  apart  from  climatic  conditions,  and  against 
what  enormous  forces  they  must  fight,  in  their  efforts 
to  reclaim  the  natives  from  the  darkness  of  heathenism. 

West  Africa  Mission,  A  Visit  to  the.  By  the  Rev.  A.  W. 
Halsey.  12  mo.,  paper,  pp.  71.  New  York:  Presbyterian 
Board  of  Missions. 

The  work  done  at  Libreville  in  the  Congo  Franfaise  and 
in  the  regions  to  its  south  and  west,  by  the  missionaries 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  is  very  similar  in  character, 
though  much  less  restricted  in  range,  to  the  work  our 
Church  missionaries  are  doing  in  Liberia,  It  gives  no 
new  ideas  to  those  who  are  familiar  with  that  work,  but 
it  intensifies  the  sense  of  need. 

West  Africa,  Travels  in.  By  Mary  Kingsley.  Cloth,  8  vo. , 
pp.  627.  New  York:  Macmillan  &  Co.,  1897.  Price  $2.00 

West  African  Studies.  By  Mary  Kingsley.  Cloth,  8  vo., 
pp.  566.  New  York:  Macmillan  &  Co.,  1899.  Price  $2.25. 
These  two  books  are  so  extremely  interesting  that  it  is 
hard  to  say  they  should  be  omitted  from  any  list  of 
works  on  Africa.  The  author’s  first  visit  to  the  West 
Coast  was  actuated  by  a  desire  to  finish  a  work  on  Sacrifice 
her  father  had  left  uncompleted  at  his  death,  and  she 
went  to  study  Fetish.  She  had  a  gallant  spirit  and  ac¬ 
complished  marvels,  but  she  tells  her  story  with  a  flip¬ 
pancy  which  is  often  shocking,  and  what  she  says  about 
missions  and  missionaries  has  done  a  great  deal  of  harm. 
But  the  chapters  on  Fetish  are  invaluable,  and  in  the  ap¬ 
pendices  are  some  interesting  papers  on  The  Condition 
of  Trade  and  Labor,  on  Fishes,  and  on  Diseases  in  West 
Africa. 

Slavery,  A  Modern.  By  Henry  W.  Nevinson.  Cloth,  12 
mo.,  pp.  215.  New  York:  Harper  &  Bros.,  1906.  Price 
$2.00. 

This  book  is  made  up  from  the  articles  on  the  Portuguese 
slave  trade  which  was  one  of  the  important  features  of 
Harpers’  Magazine  in  1906.  Mr.  Nevinson  travelled 
through  West  Central  Africa  and  the  Portuguese  islands 


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in  1904  and  1905,  and  his  report  is  a  convincing  demon¬ 
stration  of  the  fact  that  despite  laws  and  treaties  since 
1830  there  has  been  no  effective  suppression  of  slavery 
in  practically  its  worst  forms.  This  is  “contract  labor”, 
a  form  of  slavery  in  no  way  to  be  distinguished  from 
slavery  pure  and  simple  save  in  the  matter  of  legal  forms. 
He  gives  revolting  pictures  of  existing  conditions,  but 
he  leaves  the  whole  subject  as  a  problem  which  cannot 
be  solved  except  after  the  lapse  of  much  time  and  with 
great  difficulty. 

The  Ewe-Speaking  Peoples  of  the  Slave  Coast  of  West 
Africa.  By  A.  B.  Ellis.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  331.  London: 
Chapman  &  Hall,  1891. 

The  Tshi-Speaking  Peoples  of  the  Slave  Coast  of  West 
Africa.  By  A.  B.  Ellis.  London:  Chapman  &  Hall. 

The  Yoruba  Speaking  Peoples  of  the  Slave  Coast  of 
West  Africa.  By  A.  B.  Ellis.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp.  402. 
London:  Chapman  &  Hall,  1894.  Price  10s.  6d. 

These  essays  in  anthropology  are  of  value  to  the  linguist 
and  the  serious  student  of  folk  lore.  The  people  who 
speak  these  languages  all  live  on  the  West  Coast  of  Africa, 
and  their  tongues  are  quite  distinct,  their  common  origin 
only  to  be  determined  by  their  construction  and  roots. 
The  most  westerly,  the  Tshis,  are  the  least  advanced  in 
civilization,  and  the  Yorubas,  the  most  easterly,  are  the 
farthest  advanced.  The  amount  of  seaboard  held  by 
the  Yorubas  is  less  than  that  held  by  the  others  and 
until  recently  they  were  an  inland  people.  At  the  present 
time  they  are  the  leading  people  in  West  Africa.  Mis¬ 
sionaries  on  the  spot  would  find  the  books  of  value  still, 
though  conditions  have  changed  and  the  books  are  pic¬ 
tures  of  a  by-gone  civilization. 

Timbuctoo  the  Mysterious.  By  Felix  Dubois.  Trans¬ 
lated  from  the  French  by  Diana  White.  Cloth,  12  mo.,  pp. 
371.  London:  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  1896.  Price  12s. 
6d. 

The  past  ten  years  have  so  changed  the  map  of  Africa 
that  Timbuctoo  is  no  longer  inaccessible  and  the  mystery 


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which  enwrapped  her  no  longer  exists.  But  the  story  of 
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